Jeanne Carstensen

Photograph by Marissa Leshnov

About The Author

Jeanne Carstensen is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York TimesThe NationForeign PolicySalon, and on NPR’s The World.  She covered the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and Turkey and has been awarded grants and fellowships from The Pulitzer Center, Logan Nonfiction Program, and Mesa Refuge, where she was the Peter Barnes Long-Form Journalism fellow. She lives in San Francisco and A Greek Tragedy is her first book.

Appearances

JUL 27
6:00PM
Virtual

with Saumya Roy

City Lights

Books by Jeanne Carstensen

A Greek Tragedy

One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis

SILVER MEDAL WINNER IN NONFICTION FOR THE 95TH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS

A 2026 FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION

Five Days at Memorial meets Into the Raging Sea in this “vivid snapsh...

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