Julia Lieblich

Interview at Chicago Tribune Literary Festival on Book TV

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Worldview radio interview with Jerome McDonnell on WBEZ

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"I have just turned the last page. I feel drained, enraged, despairing for humanity--but also enriched, confirmed, and, in a way, elated. This unlikely couple, a journalist who wrote the story and a psychiatrist who lived the story, have accomplished something that is remarkable and necessary. They relived and recorded one man's survival of genocide in a narrative that conveys such well-chosen detail that you smell the stench and sweat of bodies in a concentration camp, but you have just enough air to breathe and distance to carry you through the darkness ... Read this book. It will take you where you would rather not go, but you will be better for going there." --Frank Ochberg, MD, founder of Columbia University's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Books and Journals

Wounded I Am More Awake: Finding Meaning After Terror

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Wounded I Am More Awake, co-authored with Esad Boskailo, follows the story of a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide. This gripping account raises questions for healers, survivors, and readers striving to understand the reality of war and the aftermath of terror.

Sisters: Lives of Devotion and Defiance

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Sisters is a compelling portrait of nuns in the United States today, their rich history and evolving vocation. Julia Lieblich focuses on the lives of four of the Catholic Church's most progressive sisters. Through their stories we come to understand some of the strongest voices of devotion and defiance in the Roman Catholic Church today. The power of Sisters resides in the storytelling, in the gradual unfolding of these lives of faith.

Pieces of Bone in Agni literary review

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Julia Lieblich tells the story of a North American nun who endures unspeakable acts of torture in Guatemala only to be questioned by U.S. officials about the veracity of her account. Lieblich spent two years interviewing human rights experts, a former CIA analyst, the U.S. ambassador and numerous others and examining hundreds of pages of declassified State Department documents. The material ultimately supports Ortiz's testimony of terror and reveals an attempt by U.S. officials to discredit her.