SinCLA presents Joanne Leedom-Ackerman May 5th 2024

The special guest for our May 5th chapter meeting was acclaimed author, essayist and international journalist Joanne Leedom-Ackerman who shared how her extensive travels and behind-the-scenes investigations in global trouble spots have informed her novels. A Vice President of PEN International, she serves on the boards of the International Center for Journalists, the American Writers Museum, Words Without Borders, and Refugees International and is an emeritus  director of Poets and Writers, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and Human Rights Watch. Facts meet fiction in her latest book, The Far Side of the Desert (Oceanview). Ryan Prado of Foreword calls it, “a propulsive thriller with myriad levels of intrigue and suspense”.