Haley Sweetland Edwards is the executive editor of The Reader, an independent book review by the Washington Monthly. She was previoulsy the deputy DC bureau chief of TIME, where she wrote and edited numerous cover stories, and helped to oversee political and policy coverage for the magazine. Haley began her career as a cub reporter at The Seattle Times, and spent many in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, Yemen and Georgia in particular, covering the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Haley graduated magna cum laude with degree in philosophy and history from Yale University, and with master's from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Boise with her family.
Books that changed my life: Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These, Annie Dillard's For The Time Being, Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time, Anne Carson's Wrong Norma, but really, how does one choose?
