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Keri Blakinger
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Keri Blakinger

How to pronounce Keri Blakinger: BLAKE-in-jur

Keri Blakinger Biography

Keri Blakinger is an investigative reporter based in Texas. She covers criminal justice and injustice for The Marshall Project and writes "Inside Out," a regular column published in collaboration with NBC News. She previously worked for the Houston Chronicle and her writing has appeared everywhere from the New York Daily News to the BBC and from VICE to the New York Times. She was a member of the Chronicle's Pulitzer-finalist team in 2018 and her 2019 coverage of women's jails for the Washington Post Magazine helped earn a National Magazine Award. Before becoming a reporter, she did prison time for a drug crime in New York.

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    Wintergirls
    by Laurie Halse Anderson

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    Roxane Gay's writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia ... (more)

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    Try:
    Hunger
    by Roxane Gay

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