Sarah Wild­man has report­ed across Europe and the Mid­dle East for The New York Times, Slate, and The New York­er, among oth­er places; she is a for­mer New Repub­lic staffer. She is the recip­i­ent of the Peter R. Weitz Prize from the Ger­man Mar­shall Fund ​“for excel­lence and orig­i­nal­i­ty in report­ing on Europe and the transat­lantic rela­tion­ship” for the series in Slate where Paper Love orig­i­nat­ed. She lives in Wash­ing­ton, DC.