Ariel Leve is an author and award-winning journalist. Born in New York City, Ariel grew up with her mother, a poet, in Manhattan. At the age of five, she began traveling to Southeast Asia, where she spent part of the year living in Bangkok, Thailand, with her father, a lawyer.
Leve worked as a Senior Writer on contract with The London Sunday Times Magazine from 2003-2011. She has written over a dozen cover stories, in-depth investigative features, and interviews.
She has been shortlisted for the British Press Awards three times for Interviewer of the Year (2005 and 2010) and Feature Writer of the Year (2008). She has been Highly Commended twice: Feature Writer (2008) and Interview of the year (2010).
In 2008 she won Feature Writer of the Year from the Magazine Design and Journalism Awards.
From 2005-2010, her column, "Cassandra" appeared weekly in The Sunday Times Magazine, and prior to that it ran in the Guardian under the title "Half Empty"
From 2010-2012, her column, "The Fussy Eater" appeared monthly in The Observer Food Monthly Magazine.
Ariel’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Elle, Esquire, Men’s Journal, Marie Claire, The Guardian, the Telegraph, the Financial Times, Granta, and other publications.
She has been profiled in New York magazine and The Guardian and widely interviewed on radio, including NPR, Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, the BBC, and Radio One.
In 2009, "The Cassandra Chronicles" was published in the UK (Portobello Books) and in the US under the title, "It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me" (HarperCollins).
Leve is the co-author with Robin Morgan (former editor of The Sunday Times Magazine) of an oral biography of the year 1963 -- It Books (HarperCollins) 2013.
Ariel’s TED talk on gaslighting has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.
Her memoir "An Abbreviated Life" was published in June 2016 (HarperCollins) to critical acclaim.