I am a freelance journalist and writer based in Jerusalem. A regular contributor to Al Jazeera English, I also blog at +972.
From 2009 to 2010, I covered Israel/Palestine as a stringer for The National on Saturday, until the section closed. My work has also appeared in Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Slate, The Huffington Post, Counter Punch, Caravan, 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, Inter Press Service, Common Ground News Service, Zeek, Mondoweiss, Guernica, Souciant, The Khaleej Times, Daily News Egypt, France 24′s Observers, Public Art Review, Bookslut, and The Southeast Review among other international publications.
I have offered commentary about Israel for respected media outlets including the BBC and Al Jazeera.
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 Online, Zeek, and other publications. My poems have appeared in Babel Fruit and elsewhere.
I am 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 hold undergraduate degrees in English and Psychology. I am an avid traveler who has visited over 20 countries–from Spain to Lebanon to the Philippines and everywhere in between. I speak, read, and write Hebrew and am studying Arabic.
I am currently working with an agent on a book about migrant workers in Israel.
Feel free to contact me at:
myaguarnieri(at)gmail(dot)com