Matt McAllester is the author of Bittersweet. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who worked as a reporter for Newsday for thirteen years, most of them as a foreign correspondent. He now lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Pernilla. Winner of a number of awards, including the Osborn Elliott Award for Excellence for his coverage of Nepal in 2006 and several Overseas Press Club citations for his international reporting, he is currently a contributing editor at Details.
