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

JUN 10
6:30PM
In Person

with Michael Scott Moore

Village Well Books & Coffee
9900 Culver Blvd #1b
Culver City, CA 90232
JUN 13
4:00PM
In Person

KUBO LB
3976 Atlantic Ave
Long Beach, CA 90807
JUN 15
6:30PM
In Person

panel with Marco Werman and Kate Morrissey

Verbatim Books
3793 30th St
San Diego, CA 92104
JUL 25
12:00AM
In Person

Mesa Refuge, Presbyterian Church, Point Reyes Stat
11445 CA-1
Point Reyes Station,, CA 94956
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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