About
Sheridan Prasso is an award-winning writer, editor, and Asia specialist whose work explores power, money, culture, and the evolving US-China relationship. Her assignments have taken her across Asia and around the world, and her articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, AFAR, Travel + Leisure, and The World Policy Journal, among other publications.
Her book, The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient, published by PublicAffairs, received wide acclaim and climbed several best-seller lists. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post called her “the new face of the old Asia hand.”
After relocating from Hong Kong and China where she was based for decades, Sheridan is currently a senior writer on the investigations team at Bloomberg in Washington, DC, writing for Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Green and Bloomberg News, as well as making short documentaries. She was previously a writer and editor for FORTUNE and BusinessWeek magazines and served as an Asia editor and then Cambodia bureau chief for Agence France-Presse. She started her career with The Associated Press.
She taught journalism in China as the first Knight International Press Fellow, sponsored by the ICFJ, and lived in Japan as a US-Japan Foundation Media Fellow. She is fluent in French, speaks conversational Mandarin, Spanish and Italian, some Japanese and survival Khmer.
Sheridan holds an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University and a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on US-China Relations. She’s the recipient of a Front Page Award for best magazine feature writing for an article about factory workers in Vietnam. She received the Human Rights Press Award for coverage of Cambodian land mine victims; shared in six awards, including from the Overseas Press Club, for team coverage of the Asian financial crisis and its aftermath; and is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for her testing of Shein’s cotton apparel that proved its links to forced labor in Xinjiang, China, and for her investigation exposing the deforestation and environmental destruction of the Amazon rainforest to make aluminum for the F-150 EV.