Suzy Hansen is a writer living in New York and Istanbul. Her first book, "Notes on a Foreign Country," was published in 2017 by FSG. It was a Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and the winner of the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International Affairs.

Hansen currently teaches in Bard College’s Globalization and International Affairs program. In 2019, she was a Practitioner-in-Residence at New York University’s Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and in the spring of 2020, she was a a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. She was an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America from 2019-2020.

Hansen has written for many publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books and New York Magazine. For several years, she was a senior editor at the New York Observer, and before that, an editor in the Books section at Salon. In 2007, she was awarded a two year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to live in and write about Turkey.

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