Suleika Jaouad (/suːˈleɪkə dʒəˈwɑːd/ soo-LAY-kə jə-WAHD;[1] Arabic: سليكة جواد) is an American writer, advocate, and motivational speaker.
[2] She is the author of the "Life, Interrupted" column in The New York Times and has also written for Vogue, Glamour, NPR's All Things Considered and Women's Health.
[4][3] Jaouad travels around the U.S. teaching writing and wellness workshops and she speaks at high schools, universities, hospitals, corporations, fund-raisers and professional events.
Jaouad has been featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation, NBC's Weekend Today, CBS News, The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times and Darling magazine, among others.
"[8] The book was generally well received by critics, including starred reviews from Booklist,[9] Library Journal,[10] and Publishers Weekly.
"[10] Publishers Weekly called the book "a stunning memoir, well-crafted and hard to put down,"[11] while Booklist's June Sawyer said it was "[b]oldly candid and truly memorable.
She does not deny or gloss over the challenges of her diagnosis or the gut-wrenching torture of some of her treatments, yet she reckons with ways these impossible years of her life forged her into the woman she has since become.