Author Hollie S. McKay gives update from Afghanistan

Hollie S. McKay, author of Only Cry for the Living and Cool. Calm. Collected: The C-Factor Guide to Mastering the Media, has been featured in an article by The Independent.

Click here to read the article: I’m one of the female reporters still in Afghanistan. The country I loved no longer exists.

Hollie is an investigative and international affairs/war journalist with over fourteen years of specialized focus on warfare, terrorism, and crimes against humanity. She is also the author of the best-selling book, “Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield.”

Hollie started her career as the first pop-culture columnist for Fox News Digital based in Los Angeles and went on to work along the frontlines of several major war zones. She has covered humanitarian and diplomatic crises in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Burma, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and other areas.

Hollie’s globally-spanned coverage, in the form of thousands of print articles and essays, has included exclusive and detailed interviews with numerous captured terrorists, as well as high-ranking government, military, and intelligence officials and leaders from all sides.

She has spent considerable time embedded with US and foreign troops, conducted extensive interviews with survivors of torture, sex slavery and forced child jihadist training, refugees, and internally displaced people to communicate the complexities of such catastrophes and war crimes on local populations.

Hollie’s writings are referenced in innumerable mainstream publications and academic journals. Additionally, she has won numerous foreign press and humanitarian awards and serves as a voluntary board member on several organizations aimed at providing life-saving medical care to children afflicted by conflict.