Interview
Annia Ciezadlo is an author and journalist who writes about food, politics, and how people survive catastrophes. She has covered wars, revolutions, refugees, climate change, and coronavirus, often from the same place: the kitchen. She used her experience covering wars in Beirut and Baghdad to write the award-winning book Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War (Free Press, 2011), which won the American Book Award; Books for a Better Life Award; and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the James Beard Foundation Award, and Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. Her nonfiction writing from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Granta, Guernica, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, The Nation, and other publications. Annia Ciezadlo teaches creative nonfiction writing this semester at Cedar Crest College.
“Her book is among the least political, and most intimate and valuable, to have come out of the Iraq war.... Ciezadlo is the kind of thinker who listens as well as she writes.”
