A two-time Pulitzer finalist, Carla Power spent her childhood toggling between the Midwest and the Mideast. She spent ten years as a Newsweek foreign correspondent, focusing on Muslim societies, global social issues and culture, reporting from Europe, the Middle East and Asia. She’s written for Time, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Foreign Policy and other periodicals. Her first book, If the Oceans Were Ink, an account of studying the Qur’an with a traditional Islamic scholar, was short-listed for the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize. Her second book, Home, Land, Security looked at why people get drawn into extremist groups—and why they leave. She lives in London with her husband Antony and from time to time, her twenty-something daughters Nic and Julia.
