Aisling Maki
Professional Journalist & Writer
Professional Journalist & Writer
Welcome
Aisling Maki is an award-winning journalist and creative writer based in Memphis, Tennessee.
She has received honors from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists, and her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books and online sources in over 20 countries.
Her stories have appeared in publications such as The Australian, Daily News & Analysis of Mumbai, The Mail & Guardian of South Africa and Yahoo! World News.
In Memphis, Aisling has written for The Commercial Appeal, Memphis Health & Fitness, Memphis Magazine, Crossroads Magazine, Memphis Parent Magazine and other publications.
She also co-authored the 2011Memphis Map & Tourist Guide and the 2011 Memphis Destination & Sports Planning Guide, published by Miles Media.
She currently works as a full-time staff reporter for Memphis Daily News and its weekly sister publication, The Memphis News.
She previously worked in broadcast news as a web producer and new media reporter for WMC-TV, Memphis' NBC and CNN news affiliate. As part of the Action News 5 team, Aisling regularly executed breaking news coverage on the station's website and wrote, produced and reported on-air segments.
Aisling is a also a storyteller, memoirist and award-winning fiction writer. In 2000, she was recognized for best short story in UConn's Myriads LIterary Journal for Evangeline, a portait of a lonely woman in 1950's rural Ireland who sought solace through the lens of her camera. And In 2006, Aisling won Memphis Magazine's Fiction Grand Prize for her story Bird Life, two sisters' comedic quest to prove the existence of the ivory-billed woodpecker.
Aisling is currently working on her first novel and seeking representation.
She has received honors from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists, and her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books and online sources in over 20 countries.
Her stories have appeared in publications such as The Australian, Daily News & Analysis of Mumbai, The Mail & Guardian of South Africa and Yahoo! World News.
In Memphis, Aisling has written for The Commercial Appeal, Memphis Health & Fitness, Memphis Magazine, Crossroads Magazine, Memphis Parent Magazine and other publications.
She also co-authored the 2011Memphis Map & Tourist Guide and the 2011 Memphis Destination & Sports Planning Guide, published by Miles Media.
She currently works as a full-time staff reporter for Memphis Daily News and its weekly sister publication, The Memphis News.
She previously worked in broadcast news as a web producer and new media reporter for WMC-TV, Memphis' NBC and CNN news affiliate. As part of the Action News 5 team, Aisling regularly executed breaking news coverage on the station's website and wrote, produced and reported on-air segments.
Aisling is a also a storyteller, memoirist and award-winning fiction writer. In 2000, she was recognized for best short story in UConn's Myriads LIterary Journal for Evangeline, a portait of a lonely woman in 1950's rural Ireland who sought solace through the lens of her camera. And In 2006, Aisling won Memphis Magazine's Fiction Grand Prize for her story Bird Life, two sisters' comedic quest to prove the existence of the ivory-billed woodpecker.
Aisling is currently working on her first novel and seeking representation.
“Aisling Maki is a skilled writer with a strong sense of news judgment." -- Robert Edwards, former WMC-TV News Producer.
