Jeanne Carstesen

Black and white portrait of Jeannie Carstesen

Jeanne Carstesen is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York TimesThe World on NPR, The InterceptForeign Policy, 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. Her book, “A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis,” will be published by Simon & Schuster / One Signal on March 25, 2025.