Kevin Sites
KEVIN SITES is an award-winning journalist and author.
He has worked as a reporter for more than thirty years, half of them covering war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, Yahoo News, and Vice News.
During that time he helped pioneer the concept of self-sufficient, video field reporting known as backpack journalism.
He was a 2010 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University and a 2012 Dart Fellow in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
For a decade he lived in Hong Kong and taught at the University of Hong Kong as an associate professor of practice in journalism.
He is the author of three books on war: In the Hot Zone, The Things They Cannot Say, and Swimming with Warlords.
His debut novel, published by Harper, will be available in bookstores July 11, 2023.
He lives in Oregon.
“The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad.”