Kevin Sites

Kevin Sites is an award-winning journalist, author, and novelist. He worked as a reporter for more than thirty years, half of them covering war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, Yahoo, and Vice News. During that time, he helped pioneer the concept of self-sufficient, video field reporting known as backpack journalism. He was a 2010 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University and a 2012 Dart Fellow in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. He is the author of three books on war: In the Hot Zone, The Things They Cannot Say, and Swimming with Warlords. His debut novel, The Ocean Above Me, published by Harper in July 2023 was longlisted by The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, Finalist for The Hawthorne Prize and American Legacy Book Awards Winner for Best Fiction Thriller and Best Psychological Thriller. Website - kevinsiteswritesdotcom Substack - kevinsiteswritessubstackdotcom