Jacki Lyden
Jacki Lyden
Bio: Jacki Lyden regards herself first and foremost as a writer and looks for the distinctive human voice everywhere: in decades of making radio pieces, live public interviews, podcasts and print. She is the founder of the writing workshops “Love Comes in at the Eye” (Ireland) and the “Colton House Writers Retreat” . (Arizona). She is the author of the national bestseller, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, which the New York Times called “a memoir classic," adapted for film and stage. Her journalism has taken her to dozens of countries including Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, and Northern Ireland. She won The Gracie Award for Best Foreign Documentary (Loss and Its Aftermath: Palestinian and Israeli Children, 2001, NPR) and also, with NPR teams, the DuPont-Columbia, the Polk, and George Foster Peabody Awards for coverage of the First Gulf War, Afghanistan and the Second Gulf War. She also covered America: The Florida Highwaymen, The Rust Belt, American farms, prisons, and other topics.