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In La Rinconada, Peru, the highest human habitation in the world, legions of miners seek gold and one young girl seeks an education.
About Marie Arana
About Gina Nemirofsky
Marie Arana is Writer at Large for the Washington Post and Senior Consultant to the Librarian of Congress. She is the author of the memoir American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood (Dial, 2001), a finalist for the National Book Award; the novels Cellophane (Dial, 2006) and Lima Nights (Dial, 2009); and The Writing Life: Writers On How They Think and Work (PublicAffairs, 2002). Her newest book is a biography, Bolivar: American Liberator, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in April 2013. Arana has been an executive editor at two major publishing houses and sits on the boards of a number of cultural institutions, including VQR. She has been a judge for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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About Gina Nemirofsky
Gina Nemirofsky is a field producer for the documentary 10×10. She has worked as a freelance field and story producer on programs for MTV, CNN, Current TV, and Discovery Health. She recently shifted from television to feature documentary production, helping to produce a global crowd-sourced documentary, One Day on Earth.
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