Eliza Reid

A journalist, editor, and co-founder of the acclaimed Iceland Writers Retreat, Eliza Reid grew up near Ottawa, Canada and moved to Iceland in 2003. She is the sitting First Lady of Iceland. Her first book, Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World, was praised by Hillary Rodham Clinton as “a fascinating window into what a more gender-equal world could look like, and why it’s worth striving for.”