SHANE BAUER is an investigative journalist and photographer. He has
reported from locations such as Iraq, Sudan, Chad, Syria, Yemen,
Israel/Palestine, and California's Pelican Bay supermax prison. He
has written for Mother Jones, The Nation, Salon, Los Angeles Times,
San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and others. He
has received the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, the John
Jay/ H.F. Guggenheim Award for Criminal Justice Reporting, and many
other national awards. He was also a finalist in the Livingston
Award for journalists under 35.
JOSHUA FATTAL is a historian with a background in environmental
sustainability. Prior to his arrest in Iran, he taught in Asia
about the political economy of healthcare and was co-director of an
environmental education center in Oregon. Joshua has also taught
nonviolent communication, qi gong, and yoga. He lives in Brooklyn,
New York with his partner and child.
SARAH SHOURD is a writer, educator and Contributing Editor at
Solitary Watch currently based in Oakland, California. Sarah has
done international human rights work with the Zapatista indigenous
movement in Chiapas, Mexico; organized with women's groups against
unsolved murders of sweatshop workers in Juarez, Mexico; and taught
for the Iraqi Student Project while living in Damascus, Syria.
After her wrongful imprisonment in Iran, Sarah has become an
advocate for prisoners' rights, focusing her writing, speaking, and
theater projects on the wide-spread use of prolonged solitary
confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. She has written for the New
York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, and Newsweek/Daily Beast,
and contributes a blog to Huffington Post.
"Riveting and necessary and illuminating in countless unexpected ways. The hikers have pulled off the almost impossible task of making from their hellish experience something of beauty and grace." -- Dave Eggers "A Sliver of Light weaves a spellbinding tale of hard-won survival at the intersection of courage and love -- the love of friends struggling to support one another in wretched circumstances, the unyielding bedrock of mothers' love for their long-lost children, and the fiercely tested love of three people for the family of humankind. It is a triumph of writing born of a triumph of being." -- Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree and The Noonday Demon
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