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  untitl3   Pagan Kennedy is not a New Age cult, a punk band or a motorcycle gang.  

 

         
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The author of ten books, Pagan Kennedy has won numerous literary prizes. Her publishers include Viking Press, Simon & Schuster, and Bloomsbury. More here.    
     
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Pagan has been a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The NYT Book Review, The Village Voice, Dwell, Details, Ms., Playboy, The Nation, Boston Magazine andThe Boston Globe Magazine. She is currently a columnist for the Boston Globe Ideas section. More here.

   
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Paganken at gmail dot com
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  For more than a decade, Pagan has worked with private clients, helping other writers to draft book proposals and edit manuscipts. She has also taught at numerous conferences and at Boston College and Johns Hopkins. Currently, she is the Visiting Writer in Nonfiction at Dartmouth College. During her gig at Dartmouth, she will not be taking on private clients.  
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Why isn't this site at pagankennedy.com? Because some carpetbagger bought that URL and is squatting on it. To buy it back, I would have to pay thousands.
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In a former life, I was a zine publisher, sometimes called the "Zine queen" by chroniclers of that culture. (Really, though, I was hardly the biggest queen on the scene.) When the American Heritage Dictionary created an entry for the word "zine," the editors saw fit to menion me.
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  - Massachusetts Book Award Honor in Nonfiction
- New York Times Notable of 2002
- Barnes & Noble Discover Award
- Smithsonian Fellowship
- shortlisted for the Orange Prize, an international lit award
- Sonora Review Fiction prize
- NEA Fellowship in fiction
 
       
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Here are some articles about Pagan:

New York Times
New York Times (again)
Boston Phoenix
Entertainment Weekly
San Francisco Chronicle
Boston Globe
Publishers Weekly
Wired Magazine
National Geographic
KQED podcast

 
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Currently, I'm the Visiting Writer in Nonfiction in the Dartmough College English Department.
 
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Here's an article about that.
 
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This year, I'll be judging the SFWP Literary Awards.
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I'll also be co-writing a book on genomics and the future of medicine. My amazing collaborators will be Lee Gutkind ( a.k.a. "The Godfather of Nonfiction") and Mike Rosenwald (an award-winning staff writer for the Washington Post). The book will be out in late 2010, and all the kids will be reading it.