Christian Wallace - Boomtown: Storytelling in the West Texas Oil Patch

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07 April, 2022

Description

Staff writer from Texas Monthly Christian Wallace muses on Texas culture, politics, and and West Texas. Christian Wallace is a staff write at Texas Monthly originally from West Texas. Before joining Texas Monthly as a fact-checker, in March 2016, Wallace worked as a roughneck, a ditch digger, an electrician, a record store clerk, and a radio DJ. He earned B.A.s in history and English at Texas State University in San Marcos, and holds a master’s degree in writing from the National University of Ireland in Galway. In 2020, Wallace wrote and hosted the documentary podcast series Boomtown, about the Permian Basin’s historic oil boom and the bust that followed. The series has more than 3.5 million downloads. Wallace’s June 2020 cover story on honky-tonks was a National Magazine Award finalist. He has also been a finalist for two City and Regional Magazine Awards. Wallace lives in San Marcos with his partner and their pup, Wyatt.