Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Michael Kelly Award, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and at least twenty others. Bauer is the coauthor, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal, of a memoir, A Sliver of Light, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran.