Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. She has worked with VICE, VICE News, CNN International, the Financial Times, TIME, BBC, the Washington Post, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, Magnum Photos, Channel 4 News, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, NBC News, the Sunday Times, Newsweek, RTE, ELLE, Marie Claire, ZEIT Online, the Independent, the Telegraph, Deutsche Welle, the New Statesman, the New Internationalist, the National, the Huffington Post and ITV News. HEFAT certified, Sally has reported from countries including Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, France, Germany, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Ireland, Lebanon, Jordan, DR Congo, Panama, Cambodia, the Gambia, Liberia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Rwanda, Malawi, Ethiopia, Madagascar, the US, Italy, Kenya and Uganda. Her writing has been translated into nine languages and she has appeared as a guest on national and international media.
Praise for This is Also a Love Story: ‘Profoundly affecting … it is salutary to be reminded of the spotlights of love and altruism that illuminate even the darkest of stages’ Bookseller Praise for My Fourth Time, We Drowned: ‘Journalism of the most urgent kind’ Financial Times ‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ Sally Rooney, author of Intermezzo ‘One of the most important testaments of this awful time in life's history. It is both heartbreaking and stoic. I cry reading any page of it. Sally Hayden is a young and brilliant journalist’ Edna O'Brien, author of The Little Red Chairs ‘A veritable masterclass in journalism … The most riveting, detailed and damning account ever written on the deadliest of migration routes’ Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields ‘What a devastating book about the catastrophic inhumanity of European migration policy. It’s a journalistic masterpiece. Shattering stories. It absolutely demands to be read … Essential’ Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers ‘Heart-stopping … A vital book for anyone who wants to feel what it means to be human in the 21st century’ Fintan O’Toole, author of We Don’t Know Ourselves