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Ayun Halliday’s Biography
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I was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and came of age at the height of the preppy craze. For some unfathomable reason, my grandparents had a subscription to The New Yorker. Every week, I’d paw through it, daydreaming of a glamorous future in which I’d be a celebrated stage actress, living in sin with some hot, devoted trumpet player in a Greenwich Village loft with a skyline view I’ve since learned is possible only from downtown Brooklyn or the western shores…
Ayun Halliday’s Journalist Portfolio
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Awards
Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, Bronze
2011 - Guidebook
The awards are named for Lowell Thomas, acclaimed broadcast journalist, prolific author and world explorer during five decades in travel journalism.
Firecracker Alternative Book Award
2002 - Zine
Established in 1996, the Firecracker Alternative Book Awards (FAB), were created to celebrate the best in alternative publishing. Today, the awards are called the CLMP Firecracker Awards. The CLMP says the awards "spotlight books and magazines making a sparkling contribution to our literary culture, and publishers striving to introduce important voices to readers far and wide."