Sarah Kendzior

Sarah Kendzior is the author of the bestsellers THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT and of THEY KNEW, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. From 2018-2023, she was the cohost of the podcast Gaslit Nation, which covered corruption in the US and the rise of autocracy worldwide. In October 2023, Kendzior launched a newsletter covering the same topics. Kendzior has a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied authoritarian regimes of the former Soviet Union. After getting her PhD in 2012, Kendzior spent a decade writing about the decline of the United States for various publications around the world. She lives with her husband and kids in St. Louis. Follow her at @sarahkendzior