Jillian Keenan

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I'm a freelance writer based in New York. I've written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Slate, Foreign Policy, The American Prospect, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, National Geographic News, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera America, Scientific American, Pacific Standard, Playboy, The Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. My work has been discussed by The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Al Jazeera English, BBC World Service, Jezebel, Huffington Post Live, Vox, Vice, The Week, and more.

As a foreign correspondent, I've reported from Somalia, Kazakhstan, Niger, the Philippines, Burundi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Madagascar, and Cuba. My photography has been published in The Washington Post and Foreign Policy. (Marion Ettlinger took the portrait I'm using as my avatar.)
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My first book, SEX WITH SHAKESPEARE, will be released by HarperCollins/William Morrow in April 2016. It is available for pre-order at this link: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Shakespeare....