Jennifer Steil moved to Yemen in 2006 to be editor-in-chief of the Yemen Observer and later married the British Ambassador to Yemen. Her first book, The Woman Who Fell From The Sky, is a memoir of her time in Yemen.
Jennifer Steil is a British-American writer living in Uzbekistan, France, and the UK. She’s the author of the novel Exile Music, which won Grand Prize in the Eyelands 2020 Book Awards; the Multicultural International Book Award; and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award. Her previous books include the novel The Ambassador’s Wife and the memoir The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Orleans Review, Saranac Review, Kenyon Review, World Policy Journal, Gay & Lesbian Review, The Week, Time, Life, Peauxdunque Review, The Washington Times, Vogue UK, Die Welt, New York Post, The Rumpus, Mystery Magazine Weekly, Irish National Radio, France 24 (English), and CBS radio.
