Amy Wilentz

Amy Wilentz (born 1954) is an American author, journalist, and professor of literary journalism at the University of California, Irvine. Known for her in-depth coverage of Haiti, including books like The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier (1989) and her National Book Critics Circle Award-winning memoir Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti (2013), she has also written a novel Martyrs' Crossing (2000) and served as The New Yorker's Jerusalem correspondent. She received a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other awards for her nonfiction work.