Kenneth R. Rosen

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Kenneth R. Rosen is an independent writer and a contributing writer to Pacific Standard magazine.

His work from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and the United States has been published by (or is forthcoming in) The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper's, WIRED, The Atlantic, The Atavist, FT Magazine, Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, The New Statesman, and New York Magazine, among other print and web publications. He has also appeared as a commentator on NPR.

His reporting and investigations have been supported by several organizations: the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting; the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism; The Fund for American Studies; the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation with John Jay’s Center on Media, Crime and Justice; the Fulbright Program; and the Carey Institute for Global Good.

Rosen is a member of the Overseas Press Club, the Frontline Freelance Register, the Coalition for Women in Journalism, and the Society of Professional Journalists, and acts as an ambassador for The Correspondent.

Educated at Columbia University's M.F.A. program in creative nonfiction, Rosen is HEFAT-certified and maintains elementary proficiency in Arabic and Sorani Kurdish.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2017*

Best American Essays 2021*

* indicates notable/special mention

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