Dwayne has more than four decades of experience in Virginia journalism, including 39 years with The Roanoke Times as a reporter, editor and, for seven years, editorial page editor. During that time he twice won the Virginia Press Association’s D. Latham Mims Award for Editorial Leadership, and was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. He grew up on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley, graduated from James Madison University and is the author of “When Hell Froze Over,” a book about Virginia politics, as well as an internationally-produced playwright.