Lucia Mann

It is hard for a person to get more worldly than Lucia Mann. The journalist-turned-activist-turned-novelist has traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe. She likes dangerous places. Where life is cheap is where Lucia wants to go. Her Sicilian blood makes her more curious. She is an adventurer, no doubt. But that's not what moves here. Lucia is a person with an intrinsic emotional attachment to the less fortunate. The poor. The desperate. The hurt. She wants to help. She seeks to bring the struggles of the world's victims to today's readers. Her latest novel, "The Little Breadwinner: War and Survival in The Salvadoran Heartland" is set in the Latin American country long acquainted with one humanitarian crisis after another.

Lucia describes herself as an activist and storyteller: the voice of "stifled" voices of human suffering which she will continue to expose for as long as she can.