Pamela Constable is a deputy foreign editor at The Washington Post. From 2002 to 2004 she was the newspaper’s Kabul Bureau Chief. From 1999 to 2002 she was the South Asia Bureau Chief based in New Delhi. She has reported for the Post from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tajikistan, South Africa, Honduras, Haiti and Cuba. From 1994 to 1998, she was a Washington-based staff writer covering immigrants and Hispanic communities.

Prior to joining the Post in 1994, she spent 12 years as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor at the Boston Globe. She reported chiefly from Central and South America, with repeated trips to Haiti, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Colombia. She also reported from the former Soviet Union,South Korea and the Philippines. From 1992 to 1994 she was Deputy Washington Editor. Prior to joining the Globe in 1982, she was a staff writer for the Baltimore Sun from 1978 to 1982. She previously worked as a freelance writer in New York City and as a staff writer for the Annapolis Evening Capitol newspaper.

Constable is the author of a 2004 memoir, “Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia,” published by Potomac Books in the US, Harper/Collins in India and Vanguard Books in Pakistan. She is co-author of a 1991 non-fiction book, “A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet,” published by W.W. Norton. She has contributed chapters to a series of books on South Asia, published by Harper/Collins. She has also written for numerous magazines and journals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Smithsonian, Current History and the Journal of Democracy.

She is a recipient of the 1993 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for coverage of Latin America from the Columbia University School of Journalism, and a recipient of the 1990 Alicia Patterson Fellowship to study military rule in Chile. In 2003 she was the Writer in Residence and an adjunct professor at the Pew International Journalism Program of Johns Hopkins University. In 2005 she was the annual fellow of the American University’s Writer as Witness Program, and a journalism fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Constable is a frequent public speaker at universities, foreign affairs councils and other institutions. She is member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former board member of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize and the Brown Alumni Monthly Magazine. She is president and founder of the Afghan Stray Animal League, which supports a shelter and clinic for small animals in Kabul. A graduate of Brown University, she speaks fluent French and Spanish, and some Italian, Dari and Urdu. She lives in the Washington, DC area.