Rachel Rose

Jury Citation

“Of the many evident talents that editor Rachel Rose brought to Kirsten Johnson’s powerhouse of a memoir, Humanitarienne, a deft sense of balance orients every page. Heartrending accounts from crisis zones around the world evolve alongside the author’s personal growth into the rare leader capable of confronting such horror; moral confusion is faced with principled determination; guilt and victimhood tangle inseparably but cannot trip up the forward march of hope and love — and all of it flows as naturally across the page as life itself. There is no doubt, Humanitarienne owes much of its compulsive readability, intellectual heft, and moral power to the judicious guidance and steady hand of its exceptional editor.”—2026 Nancy Flight Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Editing (Rachel Giese, Craig Pyette, Rachel Taylor)