Jared Yates Sexton | |
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Born | October 7, 1981 |
Alma mater | Indiana State University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
Jared Yates Sexton (born October 7, 1981) is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University.
Sexton grew up in southern Indiana. He studied English and Creative Writing at Indiana State University, and later received his MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University in 2008.
Sexton previously taught Creative Writing at Ball State before accepting a position at Georgia Southern University, where he was a tenured Associate Professor of Creative Writing. [1]
Sexton is the author of three short story collections: An End to All Things (Atticus Books), The Hook and the Haymaker (Split Lip Press), and I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World (Split Lip Press), as well as a crime novel, Bring me the Head of Yorkie Goodman (New Pulp Press), written under the pseudonym Rowdy Yates.
His work has been published in Time Magazine [2], The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, Paste, Southern Humanities Review, PANK, and in Hobart.
In April 2015, Sexton started covering the 2016 U.S. presidential election, attending multiple rallies for both major candidates and writing regular articles for Atticus Review [3] [4] in his column Atticus on the Trail. [5] He covered the Charleston shooting [6] and trail of church burnings in the South. [7] He has written for Time Magazine, New York Times, Salon and the New Republic. [8]
In the summer of 2016, Sexton went to another Trump rally in South Carolina, and reported on the behavior he observed there. His live tweets of the event soon went viral [9] and garnered him national attention, [10] which included frequent death threats. [11] He later wrote about the experience [12] and became a regular contributor to The New Republic and The New York Times. [13]
In December 2016, Sexton was a guest political commentator [14] on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, as well as on various radio programs, including KCRW. [15]
Jared Yates Sexton | |
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Born | October 7, 1981 |
Alma mater | Indiana State University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
Jared Yates Sexton (born October 7, 1981) is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University.
Sexton grew up in southern Indiana. He studied English and Creative Writing at Indiana State University, and later received his MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University in 2008.
Sexton previously taught Creative Writing at Ball State before accepting a position at Georgia Southern University, where he was a tenured Associate Professor of Creative Writing. [1]
Sexton is the author of three short story collections: An End to All Things (Atticus Books), The Hook and the Haymaker (Split Lip Press), and I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World (Split Lip Press), as well as a crime novel, Bring me the Head of Yorkie Goodman (New Pulp Press), written under the pseudonym Rowdy Yates.
His work has been published in Time Magazine [2], The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, Paste, Southern Humanities Review, PANK, and in Hobart.
In April 2015, Sexton started covering the 2016 U.S. presidential election, attending multiple rallies for both major candidates and writing regular articles for Atticus Review [3] [4] in his column Atticus on the Trail. [5] He covered the Charleston shooting [6] and trail of church burnings in the South. [7] He has written for Time Magazine, New York Times, Salon and the New Republic. [8]
In the summer of 2016, Sexton went to another Trump rally in South Carolina, and reported on the behavior he observed there. His live tweets of the event soon went viral [9] and garnered him national attention, [10] which included frequent death threats. [11] He later wrote about the experience [12] and became a regular contributor to The New Republic and The New York Times. [13]
In December 2016, Sexton was a guest political commentator [14] on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, as well as on various radio programs, including KCRW. [15]