Helen Benedict, author of 15 books of fiction and nonfiction, has been writing about refugees for more than a decade. Her latest novel, The Soldier’s House, is about the long reach of the Iraq War, while her 2024 novel about refugees in Greece, The Good Deed, was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A recipient of the 2021 PEN Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece, coauthored with Eyad Awwadawnan, she has also received the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Helen is a professor of journalism at Columbia University.