Suleika Jaouad

Suleika Jaouad is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author, artist, advocate, and cancer survivor best known for her column 'Life, Interrupted' chronicling her battle with leukemia in her twenties and her memoir Between Two Kingdoms. Born in New York City to a Tunisian father and Swiss mother, she studied double bass at Juilliard pre-college, graduated with highest honors from Princeton University, and earned an MFA from Bennington College. She created the Isolation Journals newsletter with over 200,000 subscribers and has contributed to publications like Vogue, NPR, and The Atlantic.