Rose Styron is a poet, journalist, translator, memoirist, and an international human rights who has traveled widely for Amnesty International and other organizations to secure the release of prisoners of conscience and shine a light on brutality and injustice.  Ms Styron has chaired both the PEN Freedom to Write Committee and the RFK Human Rights Awards. During two fellowships at Harvard’s Kennedy School and through her monthly series for Voice of America, Ms. Styron explored effective relationshisp between writers, artists, and public policy.  She also edited Selected Letters of William Styron and authored her own memoir, Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart, which was published in 2023.  Her fourth volume of poetry, Fierce Day, was published in 2015.