Carla E. Power is the author of Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022; and If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran, a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award finalist. She began her journalism career reporting from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Her reportage and essays have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Time, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, The New York Times Magazine, and The Guardian. The Lady Imam, her biography of the Islamic feminist theologian amina wadud, is due out from Penguin/Random House imprint One World in 2026. Power is currently at work on a memoir, Child of Empire: The Making of an American Imperialist.