Born in Washington, DC, Kristina Borjesson grew up in Port-au-Prince Haiti. She returned to the US permanently after attending college. She has been an investigative reporter for thirty years and became a media critic fifteen years ago when she was censored for the first time. Her experience is detailed in her first book, "Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press" which won the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism and the Independent Publishers Award. "Buzzsaw" is also a New York Public Library "Books to Remember" selection. Borjesson's second book, "Feet to the Fire: The Media After 9/11, Top Journalists Speak Out" also won the Independent Publishers Award. Her third book, "The Reptile Club Librarian" is her first work of fiction.