Paul Cuadros is an award-winning investigative reporter who has written about issues of race and poverty for more than ten years. In 1999, Cuadros won an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship to report and write about the migration of Latino workers and their families to the rural South and moved to central North Carolina.

His new book, A Home on the Field, How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America, (Rayo-HarperCollins) tells the story of the town of Siler City as it came to grips with the influx of Latino workers and their families through the lives of an all-Latino high school soccer team that Cuadros coached to a state championship in just three seasons. Along the way, readers learn how Latino immigrants are changing traditional Southern communities, the effects of illegal immigration, and the stunted promise of these students' futures. Cuadros was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the son of Peruvian immigrants with humble roots. His father was a custodian for St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the family lived in the basement of the chapel for several years before they moved into a house of their own. He grew up in Ann Arbor and was captain of his high school soccer team.