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Priest is the author of a book entitled: The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America's Military. She was a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace. She was a recipient of the MacArthur grant, the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the National Defense in 2001, and the 2004 New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.
When she was a national security reporter, Priest regularly engaged in detailed on-line chats with readers regarding those subjects on the Post website. In April, 2011, Priest participated in a panel discussion entitled "Could the media break a story like Watergate today?" with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the University of Texas.
An alumna of UC Santa Cruz, and former editor of City on a Hill Press, she lives in Washington, D.C., has two children and is married to William Goodfellow the executive director of the Center for International Policy.
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