Suleika Jaouad is the author of THE BOOK OF ALCHEMY and the New York Times bestselling memoir BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS, which has been translated into more than 20 languages.

She wrote the Emmy Award-winning New York Times column and video series “Life, Interrupted,” and her essays and feature stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian and Vogue, among others. She is also the subject, along with husband Jon Batiste, of the Oscar-nominated documentary American Symphony --- a portrait of two artists during a year of extreme highs and lows.

A visual artist, her large-scale watercolors are the focus of several upcoming exhibitions. She is also the creator of the Isolation Journals, a weekly newsletter and global community that harnesses creativity as a tool to navigate life’s interruptions.