Jamie Lauren Keiles

Jamie Lauren Keiles (born 1992) is an American writer and journalist. From 2019 to 2023, he was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He first gained attention as a teenage blogger in 2010 for "Seventeen Magazine Project," a blog chronicling his attempt to follow the advice of Seventeen for 30 days.

Personal life
Keiles grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where he attended Central Bucks High School West. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2014. As an undergraduate, he worked for the alternative newspaper the Chicago Weekly. He is transgender and uses he or they pronouns.

Career
In April 2010, at age 18, Keiles launched "The Seventeen Magazine Project", a blog documenting his attempt to follow the advice of Seventeen for 30 days. The project criticized Seventeen for promoting a limited conception of adolescent femininity; the project quickly drew coverage from feminist blogs as well as national outlets, including NPR's All Things Considered and CBC's Q, among others. From 2010 to 2012, Keiles was a writer for Rookie. Between 2015 and 2019, his work appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vox, and The Awl.

From 2019 to 2023, Keiles was a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. In 2022, he began working on a journalistic book about nonbinary identity in American, to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2025.

On November 3, 2023, Keiles announced that they were leaving the NYT Magazine, after having signed with Jazmine Hughes the Writers Against the War on Gaza letter, an open letter accusing Israel of attempting to "conduct genocide" in the course of the 2023 Israel-Hamas War. The newspaper said that Keiles' actions were a "violation of The Times’s policy on public protest".