Sana Krasikov's first book, ONE MORE YEAR (2008) explored the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet empire. It was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Prize, received a National Book Foundation’s ‘5 under 35’ award, and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Zoetrope, and other magazines.

In 2017 Sana was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. To research THE PATRIOTS, Sana traveled to oil fields in Texas and KGB record warehouses in Moscow. After four years in Kenya, she recently moved back to New York with her family and currently lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, radio journalist Gregory Warner, and their two children. Presented in partnership with the Miami Beach JCC Literary Series.