About

Annie Hylton is an award-winning investigative journalist and magazine writer from Canada. Through long-form narrative writing, she seeks to create empathy and illustrate the human stakes behind key policy debates. She writes about gender, migration, human rights, and conflict, and has worked in the Middle East, Central America, and Africa, among others. She writes for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New Republic, London Review of Books, Esquire UK, The Walrus, and many others.

She is a Canadian National Magazine Award winner and a Visiting Scholar at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She teaches investigative journalism at Sciences Po Paris and is trained as an international lawyer. She graduated from Columbia University’s Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and holds a J.D. and Master of Laws in international humanitarian law and human rights. She is represented by the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency.

Fellowships and Grants:

2021-22: Investigative Journalism for Europe Grant

2021: National Geographic Society

2020: Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship

2018: IWMF Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists

2018: NYU Reporting Award

2018: Thomson Reuters Foundation Uncovering Security Story Lab and travel grant

2017: International Reporting Project fellow

2016-17: Global Migration fellow, Columbia University

2015-16: Stabile fellow of Investigative Journalism, Columbia University

Trainings:

2017: RISC, Hostile environment training

2016: Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Reporting Safely in Crisis Zones