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Ann Jones, author of WOMEN WHO KILL, is the nomadic author of eight books of nonfiction, most recently Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan, an account of her years as a humanitarian aid worker among the women of Afghanistan, and Looking for Lovedu, a travel classic about one woman‘s overland journey through Africa. Having spent the last eight years doing humanitarian work in conflict zones, she is now working on a book about the impact of the violence of war on women worldwide. She is a regular contributor to The Nation and tomdispatch.com.

Betsy Reed is the executive editor of The Nation. She is the editor of Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina, a collection of the magazine’s coverage of the storm and its aftermath published by Nation Books on the hurricane’s one-year anniversary. She also edited the anthology Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror, published by Nation Books in 2003.