About

Gina has authored multiple books, including the 2020 poetry book “Star 67” which contains a poem that has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has several books forthcoming, including “Suspect,” which won the 2020 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. Interview Magazine called her 2014 memoir You’re Fine., a memoir “vibrant, darkly funny, and courageously candid.” In 2015, she collaborated with photographer Jena Cumbo for We Met On The Internet, a book about couples who met online. Their research for the project has been publicized around the world and it was called “an anthropological study” by The New York Times. The project was featured on the cover of Wysokie Obcasy, a magazine in Poland.

Gina Tron writes true crime for Oxygen’s website and is an editor-at-large for Ladygunn. She has contributed to The Washington Post, VICE, Politico, USA Insider, The Daily Beast, XoJane, Salon, Noisey, Your Tango, Broadly, BULLETT, the Billfold, Wedding Guide, Wedding Pride, Psychic Gloss, Sentimentalist and Nation Inside (a non-profit that advocates for inmates). While working towards her MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts (which she obtained in 2018,) she worked as an essay editor for the online section of Hunger Mountain for a semester.  She worked as a volunteer for Writers for Recovery as well as for PEN America. She was a guest teacher at New Mexico School for the Arts and taught memoir and personal essay at the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute. She is also an adjunct professor.

Several of Gina’s works have had massive reach and international success, including her work on the opioid epidemic. She helped break a national story about heroin exploding in Vermont with a 2013 VICE magazine article called “Brown Mountain State,” and a 2014 Politico article called “How Did Idyllic Vermont Become America’s Heroin Capital?” where she wrote about her personal experience with peers dying from heroin. Soon after, National Public Radio’s Michel Martin program, Tell Me More, and Minnesota Public Radio both interviewed her. Rolling Stone cited her Politico article, and Seven Days credited her for “introducing the world to Vermont’s heroin problem.”

For nearly two years, she worked as a full-time reporter for the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus in Vermont. While there she won an award from the Vermont Press Association for her journalism on the opiate crisis. Previously, she worked for a year as a music journalist at Westword, an alt-weekly in Denver. Gina also worked as the editor-in-chief of Williamsburg Fashion Weekend Magazine for three seasons, a small print magazine that corresponded with a Brooklyn fashion show that she was the creative director for.  She was the coordinator for Vermont’s largest fashion show STRUT for three years.

Early on in Gina’s writing career she was a regular contributor for Woman Around Town, Brooklyn Exposed and arts and music magazine Pork and Mead. She had a short fiction story published in an issue of the horror literary magazine Trembles. Gina had another short story, “Brandi’s Crimes and Punishments,” published in the anthology “Not Ready for River Styx” in 2023. She also worked in television production for a decade, creating graphics for television networks like Lifetime and working as a technical director for a CBS affiliate and other organizations.

You can check out her old cartoon blog (formerly called Slutclock) which is primarily drawings done during slow hours while she was working at a television station owned by the Brooklyn Diocese.