Susan Milligan is a veteran political journalist and writer. For more than 27 years, Milligan covered Washington, the Albany statehouse and New York City Hall for States News Service and the New York Daily News and the Boston Globe, where she recently served as White House and National Political Correspondent. Milligan spent five years as a writer based in Budapest, Hungary. From there, she reported on the wars in the Balkans, the economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the arts for a variety of magazines and newspapers.

Milligan is co-author of ’’Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy’’ and has won several awards for her writing, including the Everett M. Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress. Milligan also won the Society of American Business Editors and Writer first- place Award for Projects for a series co-written on lobbying and influence-peddling in Washington. With a team of Globe reporters, Milligan was a runner-up for the Daniel Pearl Award for International Investigative Reporting for my Pakistan-based coverage of USAID-funded faith-based organizations and their work abroad. An avid hockey and football fan, she lives in Washington, DC.