Katya Cengel
Katya Cengel’s From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union received an Independent Publisher Book Award and a Foreword Indies award in 2020. Her book, Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back, will be featured in a new California State Library curated collection. Cengel has been awarded grants from the International Reporting Project, International Women’s Media Foundation and International Center for Journalists. She has written for the New York Times Magazine and the Wall Street Journal among other publications. She received a Green Eyeshade award for feature writing and her article “My brother’s killer is now my friend” was named one of BBC’s “Best big reads of 2017”.
California’s Monuments Men and Women
During wildfires and other natural disasters, art and artifacts often get left behind. Colonel Kirk Sturm and his team aim to rescue these cultural treasures.
Michaela’s Shadow
More than three decades ago, Sharon Murch’s nine-year-old daughter disappeared. Now, a suspect has been charged in the case, and justice may be near, but a mother’s grieving never ends.
She Sleeps in the Front Seat, Her Son Takes the Back
More than 1,100 people living in their cars in San Diego lack a safe place to park for the night. About 150 others find overnight spots in designated lots offering some access to water, microwaves, showers, and port-a-potties
DeMille’s Lost City
Once thought lost to sea and sand, Cecil B. De Mille’s Egyptian “City of the Pharaoh” is emerging on a beach on the central coast