Cathy Otten

Cathy Otten is a writer and 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 and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Greater Manchester. The Los Angeles Review of Books described With Ash on Their Faces as: "The best kind of humanist journalism: lucid, transparent, grimly realistic.… (N)o book has covered it better.” She was based in Iraq between 2013-2019, was a reporter for the Independent, and has written for the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, among others. In 2018, she won the One World Media New Voice Award and was a finalist for the Kurt Schork courage in journalism award. She is based in Manchester and travels regularly to Europe, reporting her second book.

Member of the Society of Authors and the UCU.

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