Neil Shea grew up near Boston and worked as a wilderness guide before becoming a writer. He is an editor-at-large for the Virginia Quarterly Review, and a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine and The American Scholar, and he has written for many other publications including Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Christian Science Monitor, and Inversion Magazine. From 2004 to 2008 he was a staff writer for National Geographic; before joining the magazine he was a reporter for the Providence Journal. He has worked in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere.
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