Eloise Stark
Freelance Journalist and Blogger
Find my work
In English
In French
_edited.png)
ABOUT ME
I'm a freelance journalist based in Sofia, Bulgaria. I cover politics, society and travel across Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
​
My work has been published in the New York Times, AFP, France 24 and Slate. I write in both French and English.
​
In 2017, I was awarded the Social Journalism Prize, a prestigious French award, for an investigation into buyers' clubs for Hepatitis C medication.
​
Formerly based in India, Cuba and France.
From the blog
Articles
For New York Times, I reported on migrants facing the deadly peaks to reach France, and the mountain community braving the law to help them.
For The Femedic, I looked into patients that disappear on their therapists, and why.
Only one in five ED patients make a full recovery.
A trip through Eastern Europe lands me in Transnistria, a country that doesn’t officially exist, causing me to question what actually defines a country.
When I moved to Paris, I found a home amidst the opulence of Saint-Germain-des-Près. Hidden away, that is, in the servants’ quarters of my aloof bourgeois neighbours.
French bread is a journey of the senses.
For Broadview, I reported on a language learning program which combats loneliness by connecting seniors with young people.
The city of light is getting drenched. I reported on the floods ravaging Paris for New York Times.
Over the past few years, Paris City Council has legalised several legendary artists’ squats to capitalise on their ‘cool’ factor. My story in Huck Magazine.
The spectacular paintings orning these merchant houses tell the story of colonial India. Yet they risk disappearing into the desert. Take a journey with Atlas Obscura.
