ali watkins
journalist. author. photographer.
‘An intrepid guide…riveting storyteller’
Ali Watkins is a writer and photographer. A critically-acclaimed author, she has written and reported from across the world. Gun crime in Philadelphia. C.I.A. scandals in Afghanistan. Gang violence in the Bronx. Small-town corruption in Wyoming. Gunrunning and conflict in Northern Ireland. Stories among and between.
She is currently based in Belfast for The New York Times.
Reviews & Critical Acclaim
“…an intrepid guide to the intersection between violence, identity, and power.”
— American journalist and bestselling author Mark Liebovich
“[Watkins] doesn’t try to moralise or romanticise. War, she argues, is never a simple tale of heroes and villains.”
— The Irish Independent
“Ali Watkins is a phenomenal writer.”
— Irish journalist and bestselling author Edel Coffey
“The Next One Is for You,” will inevitably be compared with Patrick Radden Keefe’s nonfiction blockbuster about the Troubles, “Say Nothing”…this might seem like a story with a narrower scope and smaller cast of characters than those works. But its themes are arguably even more resonant in the current political moment.”
— The Washington Post Book Review
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