Amy Wilentz

Amy Wilentz

Amy Wilentz is the author of Farewell Fred Voodoo: A Letter From HaitiThe Rainy Season: Haiti Since DuvalierMartyrs’ Crossing, and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger. She is the winner of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, and also was a 1990 nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2014, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Farewell, Fred Voodoo. She has written for The New York TimesThe Los Angeles TimesPoliticoThompson-Reuters magazine, The New RepublicThe Village Voice, and many other publications. She teaches in the Literary Journalism program at the University of California at Irvine, and lives in Los Angeles.

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