https://www.pagankennedy.space/journalism daily 0.75 2023-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/991e449a-3127-4011-87fe-ad96aed3e1b0/Screen+Shot+2021-12-24+at+10.31.33+AM.png journalism - She invented the home pregnancy test… … the adventures of a young artist in the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/1575731959896-T2BCAHHA518AB3Q7QJ0A/Capture.PNG journalism - Escaping the internet A trip to a West Virginia town inside the Quiet Zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/15854d80-5dea-48d2-bb4b-6033abe4bd12/Screenshot+2023-10-10+at+10.28.20+AM.png journalism - The Secret To a Longer Life? Don’t ask these dead longevity researchers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/6dcc7d76-613c-4b13-a616-babfb7262bdc/Screenshot+2023-06-12+at+9.53.19+AM.png journalism - Sailing Away from Climate Change Can a centuries-old technology help to clean them up the shipping industry? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/0f1d78e5-4b8a-42df-a1f1-a82865417f82/Screen+Shot+2021-12-26+at+8.34.12+PM.png journalism - The Alzheimer’s test If a simple test can tell you whether you have it, do you want to know? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/accf71a4-6185-41ed-8f5d-f57973389d4a/Screen+Shot+2021-12-24+at+10.24.51+AM.png journalism - The insomnia machine A modern cure for a modern disease https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/822f4b8e-a8bc-42be-aa88-01cbb8210304/Screen+Shot+2021-12-21+at+9.39.15+AM.png journalism - Super-encounterers Some people have a special talent for making discoveries. How can we all learn from them? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/9ef696c4-33c4-427c-b28a-80941fea7807/Screenshot+2023-06-12+at+10.17.47+AM.png journalism - To Be a Genius, Think Like a 94-Year-Old It turns out that inventors are late bloomers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/1556036077042-GVBCW9FHBG3U8U9GWFT1/cute.PNG journalism - Why You Want To Eat That Baby The strange science of cuteness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/4ef5c981-b205-4d23-9e31-909d429e3ca3/Screen+Shot+2022-03-17+at+8.21.01+PM.png journalism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/038c66cf-894b-4fb3-8c14-7d247a6bbe0f/Screen+Shot+2021-12-26+at+8.52.29+PM.png journalism - What hunter-gatherers can teach us about brain science https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/4f31f632-a6d5-49a4-a176-df1d6e24170f/Screen+Shot+2021-12-19+at+8.15.15+PM.jpg journalism - The secret history of the rape kit The secret history of the rape kit: A New York Times article that I’m adapting into a book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/3adcda66-d3b1-4e15-aef2-e5f6e1de5642/Screen+Shot+2021-12-20+at+10.57.36+AM.png journalism - The cancer-detecting tampon “When you say that you’re going to build a company around menstrual blood, people think you’re joking.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/96f59971-43f9-4227-a272-f516479cec47/Screen+Shot+2021-12-26+at+8.37.39+PM.png journalism - Why are police more dangerous than airplanes? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/18156f70-cf9c-424f-901d-322a1736e529/Screen+Shot+2021-12-21+at+9.58.24+AM.png journalism - The fat drug Agricultural science shows that antibiotics can act like a kind of superfood to produce cheap meat. But what if that meat is us? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/1513198851709-WDVA9U7W42EL8LKRW0EB/NYT_Police.jpeg journalism https://www.pagankennedy.space/about daily 1.0 2025-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/276ea3af-6e1c-4a62-9fae-0a6e5040b003/Screenshot+2023-06-12+at+11.04.47+AM.png bio I’ve been awarded several literary prizes including an NEA fellowship. In the 90s, I was shortlisted for the Orange Prize — this photo comes from a PR shot from a London trip for the Orange Prize festivities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/4f0502a5-b3f0-4860-bf1a-2854991c9f56/Screenshot+2023-06-25+at+11.33.28+AM.png bio - MIT fellow Thanks to the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT I spent a year indulging my passion for microbiology. Here’s a photo from a fellowship field trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/b328fb25-74ef-4498-b621-02c9141f89bb/Screenshot+2023-06-25+at+11.25.05+AM.png bio - Literary adventures I’ve been lucky enough to speak at lots of literary events (including this one, a Grub St. gala). I’ve won numerous awards including an NEA fellowship, a Smithsonian fellowship, and two Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/eaaeef44-3e6d-4df0-b391-7f9a5d3964c5/Screenshot+2025-10-02+at+8.10.36%E2%80%AFAM.png bio For many years, I was a contributing writer for the NY Times Sunday Review and a columnist for the NY Times Magazine. I’m the author of 12 books, including The Secret History of the Rape Kit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/377eee88-1d18-4f9e-a88e-4a7bd1df02ed/PaganKennedy-340x340.jpg bio - Village Voice… … is where I grew up. Working at the newspaper in my early 20s, I learned how to fact-check, copy edit, write reviews and report out stories. I sometimes also subbed in as the receptionist — a job that involved chatting with Abbie Hoffman as he waited to see Nat Hentoff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/48ff1d32-5f70-4e68-97c2-9bb6696ccd76/414925786_10160987836660926_3001967677885225754_n.jpg bio - Books The Secret History of the Rape Kit tells the story of a feminist revolution in forensics. The book was featured on Fresh Air, and in dozens of print pieces. I’m pleased that Claire Danes, a supporter of this project, is the narrator of the audiobook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/2fd45129-1bfe-4230-908c-e46b104cb1e7/329353_10151136911395926_798761950_o.jpg bio - Zine-ster I got my start a long time ago as a zine publisher, with my home-made publication Pagan’s Head. It eventually became a book. Not sure why, but someone has made a Wiki page about this. https://www.pagankennedy.space/new-page daily 0.75 2023-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/1556034317873-88DXDQUFE530MIN5TY5X/webby.PNG podcast https://www.pagankennedy.space/the-prose-pros daily 0.75 2022-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/07631935-b7e6-4a04-9643-11a4024b3717/Screen+Shot+2021-12-23+at+7.24.54+PM.png The Prose Pros - Pagan Kennedy is a contributing writer for the New York Times and author of eleven books. Her stories have led to numerous film and TV deals. She has taught writing at the Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth College, and other programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/318f9f83-d06d-4539-bac5-ff16eabbbc23/Screen+Shot+2021-12-23+at+5.58.36+PM.png The Prose Pros - Ibby Caputo … has published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Boston Globe Magazine and elsewhere. Ibby has been a reporter for WGBH and a Senior Editor of Overheard at National Geographic podcast. She has taught at the MIT Knight Science Journalism program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a6b9ac6f4ca38487a34729/48f8d424-26a1-46e5-851d-6700285e6bbb/Screen+Shot+2021-12-23+at+5.31.46+PM.png The Prose Pros - Doug Starr …co-directed the Boston University Graduate Program in Science Journalism for 29 years. Doug’s work has appeared in many venues, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and WIRED, SLATE. He has published two award-winning books. https://www.pagankennedy.space/trans-science daily 0.75 2025-04-28