A.L.Bardach is the author of Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana and the Editor of Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion. She was a staff writer for Vanity Fair for ten years and has since written for The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, Dateline, CNN, The O’Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose, and National Public Radio. She has written a column for Newsweek International and writes "The Interrogation" column for Slate. Her story on Rev. Moon has been anthologized in KILLED: Journalism Too Hot To Print. Her website is BardachReports.com

She has won the PEN/USA Award for Journalism in 1994 for her reporting on Mexican politics, and was a finalist in 1993 for her coverage of women in Islamic countries. Her book Cuba Confidential was a finalist for the New York Public Library Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism and the PEN USA Award for Best Nonfiction, and named one of Ten Best Books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times. She was a finalist for the 2005 PEN USA award for Journalism for her expose of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ties with the tabloids, in Los Angeles Magazine. She started the International Journalism class at UCSB's Global Studies Department and is the Director of The Media Project at PEN USA.

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