Contributor

Larry Siems

Director of the PEN American Center’s Freedom to Write program

Larry Siems directs the PEN American Center’s Freedom to Write program, which defends writers facing persecution around the world, and PEN’s Campaign for Core Freedoms, a major initiative to turn back new threats to freedom of expression in the United States. A poet and a nonfiction writer, his publications include the collection Between the Lines: Letters between Undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans and their Families and Friends.