Yardena Schwartz

Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning freelance journalist and Emmy-nominated producer. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, TIME, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone, among other publications. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011. She worked at NBC News, including stints at the Today show, Nightly News with Brian Williams, and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, where she received an Emmy nomination in 2013. She then spent a decade reporting from Israel, earning the 2016 RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting. She now lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. She is the author of the forthcoming book Ghosts of a Holy War, which will be published by Union Square & Co, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, in October 2024. Pre-order your copy today!