Suzy Hansen

Suzy Hansen lived for more than a decade in Istanbul, where she was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and the winnerof the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award.

Her writing has appeared in many publications including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Observer and New York Magazine. In 2007, she was awarded a two year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to live in and write about Turkey.

Hansen taught writing in Bard College's Globalization and International Affairs program for four years. In 2019, she was a Practitioner-in-Residence at New York University's Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and in the spring of 2020, she was a a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Hansen was an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America from 2019-2020. She lives in New York.