PAIGE TOWERS is a creative and freelance writer who earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Emerson College. Her first book, The Sound of Undoing, won the 2024 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award, the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award (academic category), and the 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award. Her second book, What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption, is a work of literary journalism investigating the hidden human costs of Korean intercountry adoption and the systems of power that made it possible. 

Paige is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and has received generous support from Bread Loaf, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 

Although originally from Iowa, she resides in Bellingham, Washington with her husband, child, and two rescue dogs.