Sally Hayden

Sally Hayden is an Irish journalist and writer. A foreign correspondent, she has reported from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda. Her book My Fourth Time, We Drowned, a nonfiction account of irregular migration to Europe through Libya, was published in 2022 and awarded the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, the 2022 Michel Déon Prize, and the Overall Book of the Year at the 2022 Irish Book Awards. Her second book, This is Also a Love Story: Searching for Good in a Divided World, was published in 2026.