Kerry Howley

Howley graduated from Georgetown University and the University of Iowa's nonfiction MFA program. Prior to working at New York, she was an editor at Reason magazine.^[4] Her work has appeared in New York magazine,^[5] The Paris Review,^[6] The New Yorker,^[7] and Granta.^[8]

Howley is the author of Thrown, which was named a New York Times Notable Book,^[9] a New York Times Editor's Choice, and a best book of 2014 in Slate,^[10] Salon,^[11] Playboy, and Time.^[12] Thrown was long-listed for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting^[13] and won first prize in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.^[14]

Howley has been named a Lannan Foundation Fellow.^[15] Both her 2018 New York cover story on disgraced doctor Larry Nassar^[16] and her 2021 New York essay on January 6 were nominated for Best Feature at the National Magazine Awards.^[17]

In 2022 filming began on Winner, a film scripted by Howley based on the life of Reality Winner. It is directed by Susanna Fogel and stars Emilia Jones.^[18]

• Thrown. Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-936747-92-4.^[19][20][21]
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2023. ISBN 9780525655497.^[22]

• "Call Me a Traitor" New York. 20 July 2021.
• "Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood" New York. 11 June 2019.
• "How Did Larry Nassar Deceive So Many for So Long?" 19 November 2018.
• "Who Is Reality Winner?". New York Magazine. 25 December 2017.
• "What We Mourned When We Mourned Cecil". The New Yorker. 29 September 2015.

• "An Interview with Kerry Howley". Bookslut (Interview). Interviewed by Jill Talbot. March 2015.
• "A Conversation with Kerry Howley, author of Thrown". The Iowa Review (Interview). Interviewed by Alea Adigweme. 2 April 2015.
• "Who Is Reality Winner?". Why is This Happening (Interview). Interviewed by Chris Hayes. MSNBC. 24 January 2020.