Steve Jansen is a Texas-based investigative reporter and arts writer who has won and been nominated for state, regional, and national awards, including the Best of the West, Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, and National Association of Black Journalists Awards. In 2013, his investigation into two crumbling dams in Houston was awarded first place in the top category of Best Print News/Feature Story in the Texas statewide Lone Star Awards competition. He's a former staff writer for the Phoenix New Times and Houston Press who's a freelancer for various state and national publications, including The New York Times, Houston Press, Houstonia, and San Antonio Current.
