Neil Shea

Neil Shea is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. For more than twenty years he’s worked internationally as a journalist, mostly for National Geographic magazine. He often covers conflict, climate, and cultural change, and recently he’s focused on the transformation of the far north. His first book, Frostlines: Dispatches from the New Arctic, will be published in 2025 by Ecco. Neil is also a contributing editor with the Virginia Quarterly Review and the American Scholar.

Ten Things I Can’t Do Without 

1. My partner, Taylor, and my two sons, Remy and Rei
2. My parents, three brothers, and their families
3. Aminals
4. Cold winters
5. Friends
6. Solitude in nature
7. Quests, the big and little ones
8. Books
9. Bread
10. Running