Ariel Leve has been a journalist and columnist with The Sunday Times Magazine since 2003. She has written over a dozen cover stories, in-depth investigative features and interviews.

She has twice been nominated for the British Press Awards: Interviewer of the Year (2005) and Feature Writer of the Year (2008) for which she was Highly Commended.

In 2008 she won Feature Writer of the Year from the Magazine Design and Journalism Awards. Since 2005, her column, Cassandra, has appeared weekly in the Sunday Times Magazine, and prior to that it ran in The Guardian under the title: Half Empty.

Her work has appeared in Granta.com, UK Vogue, The Guardian, Elle, The Evening Standard, UK Esquire, The Jewish Chronicle, The New York Observer and other publications. She was one of the contributors to a collection of humour writing in America called, 101 Damnations (Random House).

In 2009, The Cassandra Chronicles was published by Portobello Books in the UK. It will be published in the US in April 2010 by Harper Perennial under the title, It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me.

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