GAIL VIDA HAMBURGGail Vida Hamburg is an award-winning American journalist and author born in 1960s post-colonial Malaysia. She spent her early years in Hertfordshire and London in the UK, where she attended school and college before working in London legal rights agncies advocating migrant, human, and civil rights. She moved to the United States in her twenties, first to New York and then to Chicago, where she developed a career in journalism and academia. Her first novel, The Edge of the World (Mirare Press, 2007), about the impact of American foreign policy on individual lives was nominated for the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. It is a text in many university post-colonial studies, war studies, and creative writing programs around the world. Her second book, Liberty Landing, (Mirare Press, 2018), a novel about the American Experience, the first in a trilogy, was a 2016 finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She studied mass communications at North East London Polytechnic, UK and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Literature and Creative Writing from Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College, Vermont, USA. Read More Read Less