We’re sorry, we should have introduced you to this sterling new Person of LWON before he posted his first post but to our dismay, we’re now doing it late and to our pleasure we’re doing it now. So please, meet (have met) Neil Shea.
He started out as a photographer and when all that equipment got too heavy — he says — he naturally turned to writing. And he’s done it well and thoroughly: he’s been a contributing writer at National Geographic, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the American Scholar, not to mention film and TV scripts, AND a podcast called Unfinished: Deep South. And since that’s not enough, he’s got a book coming out in December 2025 called Frostlines: A journey through entangled lives and landscapes in a warming Arctic.
We’re pleased and proud he agreed to join LWON; we’re also obviously impressed.
So glad to have you at LWON, Neil!! Can’t wait to see more of your essays here. And congrats on the book!
Thank you, Jenny! It’s awesome to be here in company with such great writers.