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Gary Brecher is a data-entry clerk in Fresno, California and author of War Nerd. His Wikipedia entry indicates there is some dispute as to whether he is real or the name is a pseudonym.
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Maeve Brennan left Ireland for America in 1934 at the age of seventeen. In 1949 she joined the staff of The New Yorker, to which she contributed reviews, essays, and short stories. Her acclaimed works include The Long-Winded Lady, The Rose Garden, The Visitor, and The Springs of Affection. Maeve Brennan died in 1993. |
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Raymond Bridge, author of Bike Touring: The Sierra Club Guide to Travel on Two Wheels, is a seasoned bicycle tourist and the author of ten books on outdoor sports, camping, travel, and natural history. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. |
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Robert Bringhurst has published more than a dozen books of poetry and is the author of The Tree of Meaning, Everywhere Being Is Dancing, and The Elements of Typographic Style, the latter of which has become one of the most influential contemporary texts on typographic design. He lives on Quadra Island off British Columbia. |
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Psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman’s books on contemporary culture include High Theory, Low Culture and The Solitary Vice: Against Reading. A professor of language, literature, and culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, she lives in Baltimore.
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Author of Floodmarkers, Nic Brown toured for many years as a professional musician. A graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he now lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Sylvia Brownrigg is the author of several books, including Morality Tale and The Delivery Room. Her works have been included in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times lists of notable fictions, and translated into several languages, and she has won a Lambda award for fiction. Raised in England and California, she continues, with her family, to divide her time between London and Berkeley.
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Michael Brune holds dual B.S. degrees in economics and finance. As executive director of Rainforest Action Network, he oversees and provides strategic decisions for the organization’s programs, including its Freedom from Oil campaign. Brune believes that motivated citizens can promote solutions and collectively pressure policymakers and corporations to change their energy priorities, and offers instruction on how to do so in his book, Coming Clean. |
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Mark Budman was born and raised in the former Soviet Union. He is the publisher of the flash fiction magazine Vestal Review, which didn’t prevent him from getting a patent for a device that allows scents to be transmitted by multimedia. The author of the novel My Life at First Try, he lives in upstate New York with his wife, two daughters, and one inquisitive male cat.
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David Burke is a documentary filmmaker and former 60 Minutes writer/producer who came to Paris in 1986 for what he thought would be a year, but turned into more than twenty. Besides Writers in Paris, he has written two editions of HarperCollins’s Access Paris, a travel guide to Mediterranean France, and numerous articles for magazines and web sites. He and his wife, producer/director Joanne Burke, have also made seven documentaries over these years and are working on a eighth.
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Shannon Burke is the author of Safelight and Black Flies and has worked as a paramedic in Harlem. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Shirley Stewart Burns holds a Ph.D. in history with an Appalachian emphasis and is the author of Bringing Down the Mountains. With Mari-Lynn Evans and Silas House, she edited Coal Country. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
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Linda Buzzell, co-editor of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind and founder of The International Association for Ecotherapy, is a psychotherapist in private practice. She lives in Santa Barbara, California. |
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Yvonne Bynoe is the editor of Who’s Your Mama?: The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers, and she is the author of Stand & Deliver, and the Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture. The co-founder and former president of the Urban Think Tank, she has been recognized by television media and The New York Times as an expert on pop culture. She is the creator of the Working Moms Balancing™ System.
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CAConrad, author of Advanced Elvis Course, is the son of white trash asphyxiation. His childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He lives in Philadelphia.
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Angus Cargill, editor of Hang the DJ, works in publishing, but music has always been his true love. As a teenager, he learned to play guitar so that he could join his friends in Sticky Weed, a band so inept they struggled with even the most rudimentary Beastie Boys and AC/DC covers. He lives in South East London and has continued to play the guitar, badly, for the past fifteen years. |
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John Carroll is professor of sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is the author of The Existential Jesus; Terror: A Meditation on the Meaning of September 11; and The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited. |
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Steven Carter is an assistant professor of English at Georgetown College in Kentucky, and is the author of I Was Howard Hughes and Famous Writers School. He lives in Georgetown, Kentucky.
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Lisa Crystal Carver was born in 1968 to a drug dealer father and an English teacher mother. Instead of going to college, she toured the U.S. and Europe six times in the performance art troupe Suckdog. They put out three albums, including “Drugs Are Nice,” which Spin called one of the best records of the ’90s. Carver, who lives in New Hampshire, has written for several publications, including Newsday, Playboy, Nerve, Utne Reader, Mademoiselle, Details, and Glamour. Her books include Dancing Queen and Drugs Are Nice.
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Douglas H. Chadwick is a wildlife biologist and the author of eight books on natural history, including The Grandest of Lives; The Fate of the Elephant, a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year; True Grizz; and A Beast the Color of Winter. He makes his home in Whitefish, Montana.
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Craig Chalquist, co-editor of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind, teaches psychology and related fields at John F. Kennedy University and is the author of two previous books. He lives in Walnut Creek, California. |
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Denise Chong is the best selling author of Egg on Mao, The Concubine’s Children, which has been adapted for the stage, and The Girl in the Picture, the story of the napalm girl whose image defined the Vietnam War. Both books were finalists for the Governor General’s Award. Denise Chong lives with her family in Ottawa, Canada. |
