Lori Grinker, born in New York City, is an award-winning photographer, educator, and filmmaker. She is the author of Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict, co-author of The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women, and has two books in progress: Mike Tyson (Powerhouse Books, fall 2015) and Dear Grinkers: A Family History. Internationally published and exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in such diverse venues as the United Nations, high schools and universities, art galleries, and most recently in War/Photography at the Brooklyn Museum (2013–2014). Her work is represented by the Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York City and is in many private and public collections, including the International Center of Photography, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and San Francisco MOMA. Her photography has garnered many awards, including a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fellowship, an Ernst Hass Grant, Open Society Community Engagement Grant, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, the Center (Santa Fe) Project Grant, and a World Press Foundation First Prize. A 2005 Ochberg Fellow of the Dart Center on Journalism and Trauma, she has been a member of Contact Press Images since 1988.