Ruben Castaneda

Ruben Castaneda (born 1961) is a former reporter for the Washington Post and author of the memoir S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.

Life Castaneda was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of a gas company worker and a homemaker. He is the eldest of five children. He is an editor at The Baltimore Sun.

Castaneda has won or shared in several journalism awards. He was one of two first-place winners for "Feature Writing" in the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild's Front Page Awards (2007), for "Cracked" published in the Post.

Works "Coyote Hunt" in D.C. Noir (2006) S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C. (2014)