Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Azmat Khan

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018

Azmat Khan is an award-winning investigative journalist and a Future of War Fellow at New America and Arizona State University. Her reporting for the PBS series FRONTLINE, The New York Times Magazine, America Tonight, and BuzzFeed's Investigations team has brought her to Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other conflict zones. Her work has been awarded the Deadline Club Award for Independent Digital Reporting; the South Asian Journalist Association's Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia; a Livingston Award finalist in International Reporting; an Emmy nomination in New Approaches to Documentary Film; and other honors. Khan is an adjunct professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's International Reporting program, a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Overseas Press Club of America.

In residence she worked on her book project, Precision Strike, exploring American airstrikes and detention efforts in the age of ISIS.

Studios

Banks

Azmat Khan worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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