Sean Patrick Hopkins

RYAN DEZEMBER is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, writing about financial markets and investors. He previously wrote about the oil industry from the Journal’s Houston bureau. Before that he worked as a reporter for the Mobile Register, reporting on the real-estate boom and bust for coastal Alabama’s daily newspaper. The Wall Street Journal nominated Dezember’s first-person story about being an underwater homeowner for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.