Caelainn Hogan

Caelainn Hogan is a writer and journalist from Dublin. Since 2010, she has reported internationally on issues of conflict, migration, and marginalization. After several years freelancing, she completed an M.A. at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and interned on the health and science desk of The Washington Post. In 2015, as an Overseas Press Club Fellow based in Nigeria’s megacity of Lagos, she worked with the Associated Press and reported from the north on the work of female activists, the politics of language and the Boko Haram conflict.  In 2016, she spent time in South Africa as an International Reporting Project fellow, reporting on sex workers’ access to healthcare and the campaign for decriminalisation.

Her first book Republic of Shame investigates the ongoing legacy of Ireland’s religious-run, state-funded institutions and the shame -industrial complex that incarcerated and punished “fallen” women and their children. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Guardian, VICE, Harper’s, The Washington Post, The Dublin Review and more.