Sarah Towle is an international educator, researcher, and award-winning author; a human rights defender, nature lover, and choral soprano. She resides in an ephemeral borderlands, buffeted and buoyed by a diversity of languages, cultures, landscapes, and creeds. She has taught English language literacy, cross-cultural communication, conflict resolution skills, and the writing craft for three decades on four continents across the age span and in myriad contexts, including under the trees in refugee settings. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, a Nonfiction Authors Association Gold Medal recipient, launched in June 2024 to rave reviews from filmmaker Ken Burns, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Toluse Olorunnipa, former Boston Globe Spotlight editor Scott Allen, and Kirkus Reviews, which called it "A powerful exposé of the human costs of America's immigration policies.” Sarah publishes regularly on Substack@Tales of Humanity. Her op-eds have appeared in the Boston Globe, Common Dreams, and Al Jazeera. Find her podcast, From the Borderlands, wherever you listen. To learn more about both book and author, please visit www.sarahtowle.com.