Kerry Howley is a contributing editor at Reason, an Iowa Arts Fellow in the University of Iowa’s Literary Nonfiction Program, and a former features editor of the Rangoon-based Myanmar Times. In addition to Reason, her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, The Los Angeles Times, Reader’s Digest, and The New York Sun. She has been a guest on NPR’s On the Media, American Public Media’s Marketplace, and Fox News’ Red Eye. She writes on issues of migration, taboo markets—including those of human tissue and genetic material—globalization, and sexual politics.
Howley is a graduate of Georgetown University, where she received a B.A. in philosophy and English. She lives in Iowa City with her puppy, Winston Peter, and her partner, Will Wilkinson.

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