NOËL MARIE FLETCHER is a career journalist and award-winning author living in Washington, D.C. She earned her B.A. in journalism from San Francisco State University and completed all Master’s coursework at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, one of the oldest formal journalism schools in the world. She started her journalism career in California and moved to Hong Kong where she covered the High Court for the HongKong Standard newspaper. She became a foreign correspondent for The Journal of Commerce, America’s oldest daily business paper, and travelled throughout Asia before being posted to Beijing as China Correspondent. She is a founding member of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China and has written extensively for newspapers, magazines and wire services. In 2017, she wrote briefly in Berlin for The Times (London) before returning to the U.S. to cover business and government in D.C. Fletcher is the author of several books, two of which have won awards by the National Federation of Press Women. She serves on a chapter board of the Santa Fe Trail Association.