Sarah Kendzior is best known for her reporting on St. Louis, her coverage of the 2016 election, and her academic research on authoritarian states. She is currently an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail and she was named by Foreign Policy as one of the 100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events. Her reporting has been featured in many publications, including Politico, Slate, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The Chicago Tribune, Teen Vogue, and The New York Times. Visit her on twitter @sarahkendzior
Hers is a crystalline voice of reason and appraisal in a world that shifts further into unrecognizable territory minute-by-minute. -- Carol Haggas, Booklist A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize. -- Kirkus Authoritarianism does not happen in a vacuum. Kendzior gives us valuable information about conditions in the forgotten parts of our countr y, which provided fer tile ground for the rise of Trump. --AMY SISKIND, AUTHOR OF THE LIST Urgent and beautifully expressed . . . What makes Kendzior's writing so truly important [is that] it documents where the problem lies, by somebody who lives there. Read her. --THE WIRE Kendzior is no psychic. She's just whip-smart and an expert on authoritarian governments. She's also that rare writer with an analyst's brain and an empath's heart... Though the essays are topical and political...one senses they'll stand the test of time, just for the beauty of the prose and the soundness of the philosophy. --STEFENE RUSSELL, ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize. -- Kirkus Authoritarianism does not happen in a vacuum. Kendzior gives us valuable information about conditions in the forgotten parts of our countr y, which provided fer tile ground for the rise of Trump. --AMY SISKIND, AUTHOR OF THE LIST Urgent and beautifully expressed . . . What makes Kendzior's writing so truly important [is that] it documents where the problem lies, by somebody who lives there. Read her. --THE WIRE Kendzior is no psychic. She's just whip-smart and an expert on authoritarian governments. She's also that rare writer with an analyst's brain and an empath's heart... Though the essays are topical and political...one senses they'll stand the test of time, just for the beauty of the prose and the soundness of the philosophy. --STEFENE RUSSELL, ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE Authoritarianism does not happen in a vacuum. Kendzior gives us valuable information about conditions in the forgotten parts of our countr y, which provided fer tile ground for the rise of Trump. --AMY SISKIND, AUTHOR OF THE LIST Urgent and beautifully expressed . . . What makes Kendzior's writing so truly important [is that] it documents where the problem lies, by somebody who lives there. Read her. --THE WIRE