Photo by Julia Nash
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AboutI am an author, journalist, and professor. My debut novel, Poison Girls, was published in 2017. The novel explores the intersection of drugs, wealth, politics and race when dozens of daughters from politically connected families die mysteriously from a strand of street heroin. My nonfiction book, Unveiled:The Hidden Lives of Nuns, explored the culture of the convent and why young, smart women choose to give up sex, money and men. I've been a staff reporter and editor at a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Sun-Times. My reporting has won several investigative reporting awards, including the Harvard Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. I earned my MFA in fiction writing at Northwestern University. I have taught writing and journalism in a number of universities, most recently at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communication. From the 2016- 2017, I was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Kyiv, Ukraine teaching investigative reporting. In the fall of 2019, I returned to Ukraine as a Fulbright Specialist. For the past two years, I have been a judge in the Robert F. Kennedy Book and Journalism Awards. In the fall of 2021, I am scheduled to go to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan as a Fulbright Scholar. In the meantime, I'm studying Russian and trying to survive the virus.
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