Miranda S. Spivack is an award-winning reporter and editor who specializes in stories about government accountability and secrecy. She spent twenty years at the Washington Post, editing and reporting stories about government and communities. She also has edited stories about the Balkans for the Amsterdam-based Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and Investigative Reporting Lab (IRL) in North Macedonia. Her work also has appeared in The New York Times, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, USAToday and the McClatchy Newspapers. The author of Backroom Deals in Our Backyards (The New Press), she lives near Washington, D.C.