About Larry Siems

Larry Siems is a writer and human rights activist who currently serves as Chief of Staff of the Knight First Amendment Institute, and previously served as director of Freedom to Write Programs for the writers advocacy organization PEN, first at PEN USA in Los Angeles and then at PEN America in New York. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Guardian, The Nation, Ironwood, Epoch, and Southern Poetry Review. His books include Between the Lines: Letters Between Undocumented Mexican and Central American Immigrants and Their Families and Friends and The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America's Post 9/11 Torture Program, and he edited and introduced Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary.