The Write Process

Shawna Kenney on I Was a Teenage Dominatrix


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I Was a Teenage Dominatrix is the true story of one woman’s quest for self-education, in academia and beyond. Kenney wrote a sex work memoir before the term ‘sex work’ was commonplace, unwittingly becoming part of what the New York Times dubbed the ‘sex work literati’ of the early 2000s.
Shawna is the author of four books, including the award-winning memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, and most recently, Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998 (Rare Bird Books) Her arts journalism and personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, Ms., Pitchfork, Vice, Bust and more. She serves as a Contributing Editor with Narratively Magazine and leads international writing retreat Hamlet's Hideaway in Denmark every summer.
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