Lee Hancock is a veteran investigative journalist. In more than two decades at the Dallas Morning News, she covered corruption, crises, conflicts and natural disasters. Hancock’s in-depth reportage on media coverage of military sexual assaults was a 2013 finalist for Syracuse University’s Mirror Awards for best investigative/in-depth reporting on media issues. She is working on a hybrid memoir/history of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege near Waco, Texas, and its impact on popular culture. “The Bleak Rise Near Waco” is excerpted from this work. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College.
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