Suzy Hansen is a writer living in New York and Istanbul. On her ICWA fellowship in Turkey from 2007 to 2009, she reported on Turkish society, politics and America’s global influence. Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and winner of the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International Affairs. She teaches in Bard College’s Globalization and International Affairs program. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books and New York Magazine. She was a senior editor at the New York Observer and an editor in the books section at Salon.