Alexis Okeowo is the author of Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama as well as A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa, which received the 2018 PEN Open Book Award. She has reported on conflict, human rights, and culture across Africa, Mexico, Europe, and the American South for The New Yorker and other magazines, and her work has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Travel Writing.
