Helen Benedict, PhD

Helen Benedict, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, is the author of five novels and five nonfiction books. Her latest are The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, which won the 2010 Ken Book Award from NAMI, and the novel, The Edge of Eden, which came out at the end of 2009. Both books are available in paperback. Benedict won the 2008 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for her work on women soldiers, and her play, The Lonely Soldier Monologues, was performed at two New York theaters several times in 2008 and 2009. This spring, her new novel, Sand Queen, about a female soldier and an Iraqi woman in the Iraq War will be published by Soho Press.