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Cathy Otten is a journalist and the author of With Ash On Their Faces: Yezidi Women and the Islamic State (OR books 2017). Cathy is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Ethics and Journalism at Rutgers University where she runs the Journalism Initiative on Gender, Peace, and Security. The Los Angeles Review of Books described With Ash on Their Faces as: "The best kind of humanist journalism: lucid, transparent, grimly realistic.… No book has covered it better.” She is a former correspondent in Iraq for the Independent, and has written for the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Aeon, and more. In 2018, she won the One World Media New Voice Award and was a finalist for the Kurt Schork courage in journalism award.
Member of the Society of Authors and the UCU.