Jeff Maysh is a multi award-winning journalist, columnist and author, writing for a myriad British, American and Australian publications. He writes investigative, undercover, human interest and celebrity profile features for the world’s most famous magazines and newspapers including: Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Grazia, Loaded, OK!, The New York Post, the Sunday Telegraph, and the Guardian.
He is an Englishman living in Hollywood, California.
AWARDS
IPC New Writer of the Year 2005
PTC New Journalist of the Year 2005
IPC Writer of the Year 2006
MJA Feature Writer of the Year 2006
IPC Online Writer of the Year 2007
Nominated PPA Writer of Year 2007,2010
In June 2011, Jeff Maysh was awarded the EB1 Green Card by the United States for ‘extra-ordinary ability’ in the field of journalism.
MAGAZINES
As a feature writer, Jeff Maysh has traveled the world reporting on all things dangerous and dazzling, gaining a reputation as a ‘participatory journalist’, who refuses to cover a story from the sidelines. Maysh won an armful of industry awards for a series of dangerous travel stories, where he fought in an illegal Australian boxing ring in the outback, and survived alone on a South Pacific deserted island. He has infiltrated Tokyo bike messenger gangs, investigated London’s machine gun black-market, shadowed drug dealers and Indian dynamite fishermen. More recently he has covered the Miss America pageant for the Sunday Telegraph, interviewed 9/11 survivors for the New York Post, and written a raft of human interest stories from all over America.
BOOKS
Jeff Maysh’s first book was published in November, 2007; ‘Brown Bread Fred’ is a ghost-written autobiography of London gangster Freddie Foreman. He worked with former Tottenham Hotspur FC kit manager Roy Reyland on his memoirs, which became the 2010 book ‘Shirts, Shorts and Spurs,‘ that in October 2010 became the bestselling book about the club on the Amazon chart. His self-published book,‘Lilywhite & Blue’, another book about Spurs, was briefly the 5th bestselling book in the Amazon chart (Sports books).
CELEBRITY PROFILES
Jeff has also interviewed everyone from David Beckham, Roger Moore and David Hasselhoff, to Jordan, and was nominated by Press Gazette for Interviewer of the Year, at the MJA Awards, 2008. He is the Features Editor at News Agency, Coleman-Rayner.com
TRIVIA
Jeff Maysh was born in Nassau, Bahamas. He is a lifelong Tottenham Hotspur supporter, for his sins.
CONTACT
US mags/columns/everything: Coleman-Rayner Agency
UK books/etc: Mike Leigh Management +44 20 7935 5500
Email: jeffmaysh@coleman-rayner.com