Past Resident

Lucy McKeon

Lucy McKeon is a writer and associate editor of the New York Review of Books NYR Daily. She lives in New York City. Her criticism, essays, and reporting have been published by the NewYorker.com, NYR Daily, The Paris Review, Guernica, The Nation, and Boston Review, among other publications. Her essay about love and blindness, forthcoming from The Point, was a finalist in this year’s Disquiet International Literary Prize. She is currently finishing her first novel about photography, perspective, gentrification, police violence, and the potential for art to effect change in the Internet age.

“I’m interested in thinking inside and through the stories of individual people in order to better understand our country’s history, our contemporary moment, and ourselves. I’m interested in how we are implicated in the making of our own lives and the lives of others.”