Naila Francis is an award-winning feature writer for Calkins Media, publishers of three Philadelphia area daily newspapers: The Intelligencer, the Bucks County Courier Times and The Burlington County Times. She covers arts and entertainment for all three papers, with an emphasis on music and theater, and has interviewed a range of prominent and emerging artists over the years, including James Earl Jones, India.Arie, Audra McDonald, Dawes, The Lumineers, Idina Menzel, Cyndi Lauper and Tim Robbins, to name a few. She also writes about health, lifestyle and fashion trends and is a columnist whose biweekly Life in LaLa Land column chronicles her own journey through the world with candor, humor and vulnerability.           

Some recent stories by Naila Francis: