About the Writer

Laura Rozen reports for Foreign Policy magazine and its new reported, online column on the world of foreign policy and the State Department, The Cable. Previously, she reported as national security correspondent for Mother Jones, the Washington Monthly and as a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, the Forward, the Guardian, the Independent (UK), Los Angeles Times, National Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, and on public radio programs. She contributed the reported afterword to the memoir of former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game: My Life As a Spy, My Betrayal By the White House (Simon & Schuster, 2007).

Previously, Rozen reported for six years from the Balkans, Russia and Turkey. She has recently reported on assignment from the Middle East and Europe. She earned a masters degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, with a concentration in international security studies. Originally from Kansas City, she lives in Washington with her husband and daughter.

She can be reached at lauraatwarandpiece.com.