Tristan McConnell

McConnell attended The King's School, Canterbury, before studying social anthropology at Magdalene College, Cambridge.^{[3][unreliable source]}

McConnell has lived and worked in Africa since 2004.

He has reported from dozens of countries, including Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Mali, and Uganda^{[4][unreliable source]} writing both long-form and news stories.^{[5][self-published source]} In 2016, he won awards from the Overseas Press Club of America,^[6] the Prix Bayeux for War Correspondents,^[7] and the Society for Features Journalism^[8] for his long-form account of a terrorist attack on a Nairobi shopping mall.^[9]

He has been a finalist for numerous Kurt Schork awards, including in 2007,^[10] 2014^[11] and 2015,^[12] and has been short-listed for others.^{[13][unreliable source]}

His articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker,^[14] Harper's Magazine,^{[15][unreliable source]} GQ,^{[16][unreliable source]} Columbia Journalism Review,^[17] New York,^[18] and Foreign Policy.^{[19][unreliable source]}