Stephanie Nolen is the Africa correspondent for The Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of Canada. At 35, she is a six-time nominee for Canada 's top reporting prize, the National Newspaper Award, and a back-to-back winner of the International Reporting award. She was the recipient of the 2003, 2004 and 2006 Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Reporting, for reports from war zones in Uganda and Sudan. 

She has reported from more than 40 countries around the world. Assigned to Africa with a mandate to cover the impact of the AIDS pandemic, she also reports on issues including the political crisis in Zimbabwe, the oil industry in Nigeria and the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda.

Prior to her posting in Africa, she covered development issues and conflicts, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before joining the Globe in 1998, she was based in the Middle East for four years. She has written for publications including Newsweek, The Independent, Elle and Ms Magazine.

In award citations, her work has been commended for
"creative brilliance, humanitarian compassion, personal courage, and relentless pursuit of truth."

She is also the author of Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race and Shakespeare 's Face.

Born in Montreal, she is a graduate of the University of King's College in Halifax and the London School of Economics. She is a failed student of flying trapeze, a devoted canoe-tripper and a novice pie-baker.

She lives in Johannesburg with her partner and son.