Judith Matloff is a former foreign correspondent who has pioneered safety training for media and women. She teaches conflict reporting at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and consults for many organisations around the world, including NBC, United Nations, Society of Professional Journalists, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, International News Safety Institute, State Department, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, Periodistas de a Pie, Cencos, the Canadian Association of Journalists, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, BRITDOC and DCTV. She is the author of No Friends but the Mountains, Home Girl and Fragments of a Forgotten War, and has been writing about international affairs for 30 years. After receiving a BA from Harvard, she worked as a staff correspondent for Reuters and the Christian Science Monitor on various continents before breaking out as an independent magazine writer. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Economist and Financial Times among others. Matloff's writing about troubled regions has been supported by various organisations including the MacArthur Foundation, the Fulbright Scholar Program and Hoover Institution. She belongs to PEN and has pioneered safety training for journalists around the world, consulting for a wide range of international media groups. She lives in New York City with her family.