Leah Zani

Leah Zani is a public anthropologist and author. They are the author of "Strike Patterns: Notes from Postwar Laos" (Redwood Press, 2022), the winner of the 2023 IPPY Gold Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and "Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos" (Duke UP, 2019). Zani is currently developing their third book, an investigation of high explosives. (Photo: Rachel Zilberg Photography)