Hamish McKenzie is an experienced international journalist who writes for the Listener, New Zealand’s leading current affairs and arts magazine, and the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s leading English-language newspaper. His work has also appeared in a wide range of publications in the UK, the US, Australia, and Canada, including the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star, and he was a senior editor who helped launch Time Out Hong Kong.
He has reported from Kathmandu, Norway, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Hong Kong, Wellington, and Manila, and he has interviewed many leading figures from the worlds of politics, academia, and entertainment, including Sting, John Cleese, Robert Smith, Billy Corgan, Wayne Coyne, Dan Savage, Frans de Waal, Glenn Greenwald, and Ken Livingstone.
He has written about refugees in Hong Kong, Maoist politics in Nepal, the Tiananmen Square massacre, a political kickbacks scandal in Malaysia, Occupy Wall Street, the war in Afghanistan, US politics, drug cartel violence on the US-Mexico border, and the push for marijuana legalisation in California. On the lighter side, he has covered the World Beard and Moustache Championships, Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity, the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality, and the Roast of Charlie Sheen.
Hamish is a New Zealander and graduated from the University of Otago with a first-class honours degree in English literature. After a year editing the multiple award-winning student magazine Critic, he went on to graduate with a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He lived in Hong Kong for four years, helping to launch two magazines and a website before moving to the US. He now lives in Baltimore and regularly commutes to New York.
Based in Baltimore, MD, USA
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28 October, 2010
In the heart of Virginia, USA, there lies a legendary comfort food restaurant that entertains and engorges its legions of loyal diners in a grand old homestead.
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01 September, 2010
The question of what it takes to be a New Zealander is difficult to answer – but this story takes a crack anyway. The answer? Fred Dagg knows.
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