Jeanne Carstensen

San Francisco

Journalist and Writer at Freelance

Author of A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis, coming on March 25, 2025 from Simon & Schuster / One Signal.

Articles

Beyond the Headlines: Capturing the Human Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis

2 months ago | lithub.com | Jeanne Carstensen

In the summer of 2012, I stood high up on the rocky cliffs of northern Lesvos gazing out across the Aegean at the Turkish shoreline just five miles away. The international sea border between Turkey and Greece lay out in the middle somewhere, but I wasn’t thinking about national boundaries. I was on vacation. It was my first visit to Lesvos and the eastern Aegean, and I was enraptured by the elemental landscape of rock, sea, and sky that hadn’t changed much since Homer’s time.
A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled

Feb 4, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Alex Green |Joe Dunthorne |Joe Kloc |Jeanne Carstensen

Green, a Harvard lecturer on public policy, debuts with an enthralling biography of Walter E. Fernald (1859–1924), a controversial doctor who shaped much of 20th-century American government policy toward the disabled.