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One of the great privileges of being part of a one-hundred-year-old organization like PEN America is knowing that our work will have far-reaching impacts beyond our time. As a writer myself, I’m grateful every day for PEN America’s commitment to protecting the freedom to write.
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It’s a difficult time for writers. Over the last two years, we’ve seen and fought back against innumerable challenges, many of them exacerbated by the pandemic: harrowing online abuse, draconian legislative bills restricting the freedom to learn, and authoritarian governments around the world clamping down on creative expression, just to name a few.

But throughout this time, so many of us have taken comfort in literature, in stories. In the knowledge that, no matter how physically isolated we may have been during the last year, we were never actually alone. That’s why I became a PEN America Trustee. It’s why we continue to do this work, with your support—because we believe in the power of the written word. ([link removed] )

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