Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez has been the managing
editor of the Texas Almanac since 2002. She received a Bachelor of
Journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1978 and
has a background in both newspaper and textbook publishing. Alvarez
has worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Missouri,
Iowa, and Texas. In 1980, she moved to the Permian Basin, where she
was an editor at The Odessa American and traveled extensively
throughout Texas. Since 1985, she has lived in Tarrant County,
where she was an editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and, later,
for Harcourt College Publishers.
Robert Plocheck, editor, has been with the Texas
Almanac since 1994. He is a native of Houston and was raised in
Damon on the Gulf Coast. He received a Bachelor of Journalism from
the University of Texas at Austin in 1972 and has worked at the
Austin American-Statesman and the Marshall News-Messenger. He
served for 15 years as an editor for religious newspapers in
Houston and Tyler. For many years, he was a regular contributor to
the Religion section of The Dallas Morning News, writing reviews of
books and magazines.
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