Jamie Lauren Keiles
American journalist (born 1992)
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Jamie Lauren Keiles (born 1992) is an American writer and journalist. From 2019 to 2023, he was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.[1] He first gained attention as a teenage blogger in 2010 for "Seventeen Magazine Project," a blog chronicling his attempt to follow the advice of Seventeen for 30 days.[2]
- Writer
- journalist
Jamie Lauren Keiles | |
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| Born | 1992 (age 33–34) |
| Education | Central Bucks High School West University of Chicago |
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Personal life
Keiles grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where he attended Central Bucks High School West. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2014.[3] As an undergraduate, he worked for the alternative newspaper the Chicago Weekly.[4] He is transgender and uses he or they pronouns.[5]
Career
In April 2010, at age 18, Keiles launched "The Seventeen Magazine Project",[6] a blog documenting his attempt to follow the advice of Seventeen for 30 days.[7] The project criticized Seventeen for promoting a limited conception of adolescent femininity; the project quickly drew coverage from feminist blogs[8] as well as national outlets, including NPR's All Things Considered and CBC's Q, among others.[9] From 2010 to 2012, Keiles was a writer for Rookie. Between 2015 and 2019, his work appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vox, and The Awl.[1][10][11][12]
From 2019 to 2023, Keiles was a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.[13] In 2022, he began working on a journalistic book entitled The Third Person about nonbinary identity in American, to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in early 2026.[14]