Kerry Sheridan

Kerry Sheridan has written for Washington Post, Salon, National Geographic, and newspapers around the world. She is currently a Tampa-based reporter for WUSF 89.7 FM, the local NPR affiliate. She previously worked as a health and science correspondent for Agence France-Presse, covering environmental issues, space, medicine and research.

Her first book, "Bagpipe Brothers: The FDNY Band's True Story of Tragedy, Mourning and Recovery," follows New York City's firefighter-musicians in the year after the September 11, 2001 attacks, as they dug for lost brothers at the World Trade Center site and played at more than 400 funerals and memorial services.

Kerry has worked as a foreign correspondent in Cairo for Voice of America and has reported for Agence France-Presse on assignment in Nicosia, Jerusalem, Amman, Beirut, Gaza City, Nicosia, Baku, Kiev, Rome and Tbilisi. She earned her MS in Journalism from Columbia University in 2002, and was awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for Cultural Reporting.