A Momentous Summer for Brazilian-Born Journalist Fernanda Santos
An award-winning book and shift to academia
In June, the paperback edition of The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a book about the 2013 Yarnell Fire in Arizona and death of 19 specialty firefighters, arrived on the wings of a Spur prize from the Western Writers of America for Best First Non-Fiction Book. Author Fernanda Santos officially accepted the award in late June at the WWA’s annual convention in Kansas City.
This month, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University announced that Santos has joined their faculty as a Southwest Borderlands Initiative professor.
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