Mya Guarnieri is a writer and award-winning journalist who spent nearly a decade covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Author of The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others, which was shortlisted for a Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize, her reportage, commentary, essays, and short fiction have appeared in a wide variety of international publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, The Washington Post, Haaretz, Le Monde Diplomatique, Foreign Policy, Slate, Guernica, Narrative Magazine, and The Kenyon Review Online.

"There are countless ways to talk about Israel and Palestine but few as moving and engrossing as this memoir. Crossing the Line is wonderful."--Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"A remarkable story, beautifully told, which shows that love can transgress even the most brutal political divides."--Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

"This brave and beautifully rendered memoir--narrated at the sharp edge where the political meets the personal--reckons not only with a country's borders but with the shadow lines within the self. Guarnieri writes with the lyric precision of one who has learned to translate survival into song."--Benjamin Balint, author of Kafka's Last Trial

"Crossing The Line is a genuinely singular and essential book. It is a love story unlike any other I have ever read. And it is a portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy unlike any other I have ever read. In both ways, Mya Guarnieri has written with both lyrical compassion and unrelenting, unflinching moral integrity."--Samuel Freedman, author of Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, winner of the National Jewish Book Award