Tara McKelvey is a features writer for the BBC. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, Marie Claire, and The American Prospect. McKelvey was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 in General Nonfiction. She is the author of Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War and has been a contributor to two other books, New Threats to Freedom and The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape.