I am an award-winning journalist and the author of The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others, which offers an intimate look at the lives of African asylum seekers and Southeast Asian migrant workers in Israel. Critically acclaimed, The Unchosen was short-listed for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize.
After spending almost a decade living in and reporting on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as an independent journalist, I’m now based in South Florida, where I’m a reporter for Deseret News.
A graduate of Columbia University’s MA in Journalism program, I’ve been writing for +972 since 2011. In the past, I’ve been a regular contributor to Al Jazeera English, The National, Inter Press Service, and the United Nation’s humanitarian news agency, IRIN.
My work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Slate, The Daily Beast, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Counter Punch, Caravan, Agence France-Presse (AFP), The Boston Review, Outlook India– Newsweek’s Indian subsidiary– as well as The Palestine Israel Journal, Tablet, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Daily Forward, Maan News Agency and other international publications.
My short story “Hills Behind Us” was featured as a Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine. My fiction has also been published The Kenyon Review, Zeek, and other publications. My essays have been published in Slate and The Jewish Quarterly.
A graduate of Florida State University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, which The Atlantic Monthly has ranked as one of the top ten creative writing programs in the United States, I also hold undergraduate degrees in English and Psychology.
Feel free to contact me at: myaguarnieri(at)gmail(dot)com
*Photo by Hannah Mayo Photography