Kevin Sites

[On patrol with the U.S. Army in Eastern Afghanistan, 2013.
(Photo by Alex Pena)]

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Kevin Sites is an award-winning journalist, author, and novelist.

He worked as a reporter for more than thirty years, half of them covering war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, Yahoo, and Vice News.

During that time, he helped pioneer the concept of self-sufficient, video field reporting known as backpack journalism.

[Self-portrait with U.S. Marines during Operation Phantom Fury or The Second Battle of Fallujah, November 2004.]

He was a 2010 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University and a 2012 Dart Fellow in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.

He is the author of three books on war: In the Hot Zone, The Things They Cannot Say, and Swimming with Warlords.

[The author observing U.S. military presence from a local vantage point and dressed in traditional clothes; loose-fitting shalwar kameez, scarf and wool pakol cap and sandals. Eastern Afghanistan 2013.(Photo by Alex Pena)]

His debut novel, The Ocean Above Me, published by Harper in July 2023 was longlisted by The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, Finalist for The Hawthorne Prize and American Legacy Book Awards Winner for Best Fiction Thriller and Best Psychological Thriller.

Website -   http://kevinsiteswrites.com/
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From 2012 until 2022 he lived and worked in Hong Kong as an Associate Professor of Practice at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong.  

He’s been a contributor to many print and online publications including, Vice News, Salon, Aeon, Men’s Health, Wired, Popular Science, Parade, Alert Diver, Sea History and CrimeReads.