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Meredith May Author

Meredith May is an award-winning journalist, author, and a fifth-generation beekeeper.
A former San Francisco Chronicle reporter, her Operation Lion Heart series about a war-wounded Iraqi boy won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize; and her investigation into sex trafficking at San Francisco massage parlours earned first place feature writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press, and was turned into a graphic novel by Stanford University.
Her writing is included in the book, Best Newspaper Writing 2005, published by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
From 2007-2017, she taught journalism at Mills College in Oakland, CA.