Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers, which The New Republic called “a powerful warning,” and Flights: Radicals on the Run. He is the recipient of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing for his work as a founding editor of Guernica, as well as the Discovery/The Nation Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Baffler, the Boston Review, Dissent, and Jacobin, among other outlets.