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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

  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.   - 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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This coming year, I'll be in residence at
MIT as a Knight Fellow in Science Journalism.
 
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The Massachusetts Cultural Council
named me a 2010/11 grant-winner in Creative Nonfiction.
 
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My piece, "Library Science," ran in the
New York Times Book Review.
 
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I just started a web magazine called
Writers 2.0. Please consider contributing
to it.
 
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