Gretchen Peters covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade, first for The Associated Press and later as a reporter for ABC News. A Harvard graduate, Peters was nominated for an Emmy for her coverage of the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister, and won the SAJA Journalism Award for a Nightline segment on the former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf. Her work has appeared in leading media outlets including The Christian Science Monitor, The New Republic and The National Geographic Channel, and she has been a regular commentator on NPR and CNN. She spent five years traveling the border areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan to research and write Seeds of Terror. She now lives in the US with her husband, Pulitzer prize-winning photographer John Moore, and their children.