Jessica Goudeau is the author of After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America (which won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize) and We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family’s Mythmaking and Migration (which won the Writers’ League of Texas Nonfiction Book Award). She’s written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Washington Post, among many other places, and produced short documentaries distributed by Teen Vogue and The New Yorker about young women crossing borders. She has a PhD in literature from the University of Texas and teaches Fiction and Creative Nonfiction at Wilkes University.
