Edgar Moreno

Feature Writer & Editorial Voice

I grew up in a bilingual household in San Antonio where storytelling was just what you did. My abuela told folktales, my father turned his day into an adventure every evening at dinner, and somewhere along the way I decided I wanted to do that for a living. I started as a travel writer, spending years crisscrossing the Southwest and Latin America writing about the people and places I encountered. A profile I wrote on a family-run bed-and-breakfast in Oaxaca ended up getting national attention, and that piece taught me something I have carried ever since: the best stories live at the intersection of place, culture, and hospitality. When short-term rentals started reshaping communities, it felt like a natural fit. I saw hosts opening their homes, neighbors adjusting to change, entire neighborhoods in conversation about what belonging means. Those are the stories I chase now. I write features, profiles, and the occasional editorial, always trying to find the human thread that connects individual experiences to something bigger. I split my time between Austin and Mexico City, which gives me a front-row seat to how home-sharing plays out across very different cultures. If my writing works the way I hope it does, you finish reading and feel like you have been somewhere, met someone, and maybe understood something a little differently than before.