Neil Shea
Neil is a contributing writer for National Geographic magazine.
News
Failure to Communicate
August 24, 2010
New story at Foreign Policy: Could the U.S. mission in Afghanistan fall apart simply because of bad translation?
Letter from Afghanistan
June 08, 2010
New story in the summer issue of The American Scholar: So This Is Paktya
The Virginia Quarterly Review wins Independent Press Award
April 27, 2010
“The editors at Virginia Quarterly Review have an eye for artisan reportage—the kind of work done by a rare breed of journalist, photographer, or essayist. These are the people who can disappear into some corner of our dangerous and uncertain world ... and emerge with a story so vivid it puts us there, too.”
The award, for Best International Coverage in 2009, was given by the Utne Reader.
“It’s clear that today’s best journalists and writers, who just a few years ago were working for daily newspapers or metropolitan weeklies, are finding a home for their best work in smaller, independent and alternative magazines.”
The Afghan War in Winter
April 06, 2010
New feature in spring issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review: The Talking Season
Africa’s Last Frontier
March 01, 2010
New feature in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Magazine: Ethiopia’s Omo River Valley