Mimi Nichter, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona School of Anthropology, where she holds joints appointments in the College of Public Health and the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences. She is a cultural and public anthropologist who studies core concerns in contemporary American society. Her ethnographic research primarily focuses on adolescents and young adults. She is the author (or co-author) of four books. Her first book, Fat Talk, received the prestigious Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, for a book that makes anthropology meaningful and accessible to a broad public audience. Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma, and Resilience is her first memoir.