Jeanne Carstesen is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The World on NPR, Salon, and other outlets. She covered the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and Turkey and has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Pulitzer Center, the Logan Nonfiction Program, and Mesa Refuge. Previously, she was managing editor of Salon and The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of The New York Times. Born in Portland, Oregon, Carstensen has lived in France, Greece, and Costa Rica, where she was a shortwave radio producer and translator.