Neil Shea

Biography

Neil Shea is a writer, filmmaker, and teacher. His work regularly appears in National Geographic, and he’s a contributing editor to VQR and the American Scholar. He teaches at Sewanee, the University of the South, and Boston University.

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#VQRTRUESTORY / Spring 2017

Subway Rorschach

By Neil Shea

In the new city we carry our newborn son down the block and into the subway. His first journey, diving under rivers, piercing webs of pipes and wires, rattling past ghost stations and lunch boxes lost by the sandhogs a century ago. They say...
Spring 2010

The Talking Season

By Neil Shea
Moving awkwardly across winter fields, avoiding men, women walk to the funeral of a local elder in the Pech Valley near Combat Outpost Honaker-Miracle.
REPORTING / Winter 2009

The Revolution Is

By Neil Shea

As President Obama makes his historic visit to Cuba this week, take a look at some of the work we’ve published about the island and its people.