Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Shane Bauer

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Oakland, CA
MacDowell fellowships: 2016, 2021
Undercover With a Border Militia - Tap to Read
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard - Read

Shane Bauer is currently working on a book based on his undercover reporting in a private prison in Louisiana, where he was hired as a corrections officer. He is a senior reporter at Mother Jones magazine and co-author of the memoir A Sliver of Light about the two years he and two friends were held captive in Iran.

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Sorosis

Shane Bauer worked in the Sorosis studio.

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