Amy Wilentz is the author of "The Rainy Season", "Martyrs Crossing", and "I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen". She has won the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. She writes for "The New Yorker" and "The Nation" and teaches in the Literary Journalism program at UC Irvine.