Sarah Mirk is a multimedia journalist whose work focuses on telling nuanced, human-focused stories. She is an editor of The Nib and the former online editor of national feminism and pop-culture magazine Bitch. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
"""An eye-opening, damning indictment of one of America's worst trespasses that continues to this day.""--Kirkus Reviews ""Moving details emerge, as when one detainee narrates his relationship with an iguana, along with profound frustration; in the words of one attorney, ""The law is a joke."" The island colors and collection of styles make for a surprisingly artful book.""--The New York Times Book Review ""The influences of Chris Ware, the Hernandez brothers and Moebius can be seen in Guantánamo Voices, a narrative report on the complex legal maneuvering, bureaucratic banality and patriotic equivocation that helped to justify a wartime prison that still exists today."" --Shelf Awareness ""...exposes the surreal inhumanity and documents the humane attempts at justice-seeking for the so-called ""detainees"" in the ""detention facility"" known as Guantánamo.""--Booklist ""...the warm color palette designed by Kazimir Lee unifies the collection while helping the heavy subject matter stay measurably more approachable. This anthology disturbs and illuminates in equal measure.""--Publishers Weekly ""...The prison is often a forgotten topic of recent American history; Guantanamo Voices'illustrated format does the difficult work of making these facts accessible to a broad audience, dispelling falsehoods in the process...""--KQED"