Emily Strasser is the author of Half-Life of a Secret, a deeply researched memoir that won the 2024 Reed Environmental Writing Award and the 2024 Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Her work has appeared in Catapult, Ploughshares, Guernica, Colorado Review, The Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Gulf Coast, among others. Strasser was a 2018鈥2019 Olive B. O鈥機onnor Fellow and currently teaches at Tufts University.
Because confronting our nation鈥檚 past with transparency, empathy, and accountability is laborious and essential work, especially in an era of global conflict.