[1] Craig was raised in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, and attended City University in London.
Previous to her study and work as a journalist, Craig was a horse trainer and jockey.
In 2014 she was the recipient of the Martha Gellhorn prize for her reporting on U.S. drone strikes in Yemen including the 12 December 2013 bombing of a wedding convoy.
[4] On 27 February 2013, Craig survived an assassination attempt when the taxi she was travelling in was ambushed and came under fire outside the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Sana'a.
[7][8] Since then she has repeatedly returned to report on the Yemen civil war, human rights abuses and the country's humanitarian crisis from both sides of the frontlines for radio, print and TV.