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Norman Waddell lives in Kyoto, Japan. His translations include work by Baisao (The Old Tea Seller), Dôgen, Bankei, Hakuin (The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin), D.T. Suzuki, and many others.
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Lamar Waldron’s groundbreaking research has been featured by hundreds of newspapers and radio stations. His book Ultimate Sacrifice has been the subject of its own special on the Discovery Channel, produced by NBC (“Conspiracy Files: JFK Assassination”). A new special about Ultimate Sacrifice aired on German Public Television in October 2007. The author has been featured on “Geraldo Rivera” and Fox News, and his work has been acclaimed by publications ranging from the San Francisco Chronicle to foreign publications such as the Sunday London Telegraph and Germany’s Der Spiegel. He is the co-author of Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination. |
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Robb Walsh is a food writer and restaurant critic. Winner of the James Beard Journalism Award, he is the author of several books, including Sex, Death & Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover’s World Tour, The Texas Cowboy Cookbook, and Are You Really Going to Eat That? He lives in Houston, Texas.
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John West is the author of The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides. He attended Stanford University, graduated from UCLA, and holds a law degree from the University of Wisconsin. West practiced law and lived in Seattle for 15 years and now lives in Los Angeles. He continues to write and has founded The Last Goodnights Organization, which is dedicated to increasing public awareness of and rational discourse about the death-with-dignity issue. He also provides consulting services to people uniquely affected by assisted suicide. West has been featured on Good Morning America, NPR, and many other news programs nationwide.
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Edward Whitelock is the co-author of Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music, and a professor of English at Gordon College in Georgia. He has published poems in literary journals as well as articles in professional journals and anthologies. |
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Kenneth Whyte is the author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst and the editor-in-chief and publisher of MacLean’s, Canada’s weekly current affairs magazine. Recently named the The Canadian Journalism Project’s Newsperson of the Year, he lives in Toronto. |
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William Upski Wimsatt is an artist, journalist, philanthropist, organization builder, and lecturer. He is the author of two essay collections: Bomb the Suburbs: Grafitti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop’s Moral Center and No More Prisons: On Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, The Cool Rich Kids Movement, Hitchhiking as Community Organizing, and Why Philanthropy Is the Greatest Art Form of the 21st-Century! He lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
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Dick Wimmer is the author of Baseball Fathers, Baseball Sons, The Irish Wine Trilogy, and The Wildly Irish Sextet. He lives in Southern California. |
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Marion Winik is the author of several books of essays and memoir, including First Comes Love and The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, and two books of poetry. A regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered and a contributor to many magazines, she’s currently a featured monthly columnist for Ladies’ Home Journal and a writer-in-residence at the University of Baltimore. She lives in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania.
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Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the United States. The author of Speaking Treason Fluently and White Like Me, he has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and television programs worldwide. He lives with his family in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Author of A Step from Death, Larry Woiwode is the poet laureate of North Dakota. His first novel, What I’m Going To Do, I Think, received the William Faulkner Foundation Award; his second, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Cleo Woelfle-Erskine is a San Francisco Bay Area–based writer, teacher and agitator. His is the co-author of Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground. His water conservation projects have been featured in the Utne Reader and the San Francisco Chronicle. Cleo has lived in Los Angeles and Santa Fe, and currently lives in Oakland, California.
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Esther Woolfson, author of Corvus: A Life with Birds, grew up in Glasgow and studied Chinese at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Edinburgh University. Her critically acclaimed short stories and nature writings have won her a Writer’s Bursary and a Scottish Arts Council Travel Grant. She lives in Scotland and works part-time in a bookshop.
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Katsuhiro Yoshizawa, co-author of The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin, is a professor of Zen Buddhism at Hanazono University in Kyoto, where he also serves as director of the Hakuin Studies Center. |
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Sean Yseult played bass and wrote music for White Zombie from its inception in 1985 through its breakup over a decade later. Since then she’s played with Famous Monsters, Rock City Morgue, and The Cramps; exhibited her photography in galleries across the country; and formed the design company Yseult Designs. She divides her time between New Orleans and New York City. |
