Kerry Sheridan is a health and science reporter for Agence France-Presse in Washington. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Petersburg Times, Discovery News, Irish Examiner, Vancouver Sun, Bangkok Post and more.

 

She is the author of "Bagpipe Brothers: The FDNY Band's True Story of Tragedy, Mourning and Recovery," published in 2004 by Rutgers University Press. She began the project in the aftermath of 9/11 as a graduate student in journalism at Columbia University, where she earned an MS and received a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship in 2002.

 

Kerry has worked as a foreign correspondent in Cairo for Voice of America and has reported for AFP on assignment in Jerusalem, Amman, Beirut, Gaza City, Nicosia, Baku, Kiev, Rome and Tbilisi.

 

She also nurtured a love of baseball while serving as content editor of Giants Today, a special section of the San Francisco Chronicle, from 1999 to 2001. She worked as a reporter for MLB.com in New York, covering the Mets, Yankees and visiting teams, from 2003 to 2004.

 

Kerry earned a BA in Language and Area Studies from American University's School of International Service in 1996.