Tucson Festival of Books

Reality Leigh Winner (she/her)



Christopher Lee

A brilliant linguist, devout patriot, voracious reader and fitness and yoga instructor from south Texas, Reality Winner was 25 and a U.S. Air Force veteran working at NSA when she leaked a classified document that indicated that Russia had interfered with the 2016 U.S. elections. She was sentenced to 5 years and three months in prison. Though released from prison, she is still fulfilling the terms of her sentence. Winner describes her experiences in her memoir "I am Not Your Enemy."

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Communities: LGBTQ+, Military Veteran


Book:
I Am Not Your Enemy
A Memoir
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Spiegel & Grau LLC
September 2025
ISBN 9781954118843
336 pages