Abend, Lisa

Lisa Abend is journalist based in Madrid. For the past three years, she has been Time magazine's correspondent in Spain, where she writes about everything from international terrorism, to climate change, to immigration, to costumed debt collectors (with, needless to say, a fair number of bullfighting stories thrown in for good measure.) As a freelancer, she has written on learning the Basque language for "The Atlantic"; on volunteer bit torrent translators for "Wired"; on the plight of Roma women for "Ms"., on prime minister Zapatero's republican upbringing for "The American Prospect"; on the