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For more than ten years, writer and photographer Lisa M. Hamilton has been telling the stories of farmers in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She is the author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, and her work has been published in National Geographic Traveler, Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, Orion, and Gastronomica. She lives in Northern California.
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Jim Harrison was born in Michigan in 1937. A member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, he has published more than thirty books including Returning to Earth, The English Major, and Legends of the Fall. His several books of poems include most recently Saving Daylight and In Search of Small Gods. He divides his time between Michigan and Arizona. |
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Hal Hartley has won many awards, including Best Screenplay at the Sundance Film Festival (1991) and Cannes (1998). An illustrated series of interviews with him has been collected in the book True Fiction Pictures and Possible Films. He lives in Berlin, Germany.
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Thom Hartmann is a best-selling author and national radio host for Air America. Heard by millions of radio listeners daily, Hartmann is the author of seventeen books, including The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, which helped to inspire Leonardo DiCaprio’s recent documentary “The 11th Hour,” which features Hartmann. His other books include: We the People; Unequal Protection; What Would Jefferson Do; and Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination.
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Robert Hass is the editor of Now & Then and author of several books of poetry include Sun Under Wood, Human Wishes, Field Guide, and Time and Materials, which won the 2007 National Book Award for Poetry. He is a professor of English at the University of California in Berkeley. |
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Educated at Oxford and Columbia universities and author of John Milton, David Hawkes is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and the William Ringler Fellowship, and his work has appeared in several publications. He is a professor of English Literature at Arizona State University. |
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Elizabeth Hay is the author of several books, including Late Nights on Air (winner of Canada’s prestigious Giller Prize), Garbo Laughs, and A Student of Weather. She lives in Ottawa.
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Gerard Helferich, a former editor and publisher, is the author of High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta and Humboldt’s Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World. He lives with his wife in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
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Burton Hersh has long been regarded as Edward Kennedy’s principal biographer and is the author of such widely respected nonfiction as Bobby and J. Edgar, The Shadow President, The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA, and The Mellon Family. A veteran journalist, he has contributed to such publications as Esquire, The Washingtonian, and The New York Times.
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Bill Hicks was born to Baptist parents in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1962. The most important political comedian of his generation, his stand-up routines, notebooks, journals, and letters have been collected in Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines. He died of pancreatic cancer in 1993.
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A.W. Hill is the author of Nowhere Land: A Stephan Raszer Investigation, as well as two previous Stephan Raszer novels, and has won numerous literary prizes. He is a Grammy Award-winning music supervisor for films, and was vice president of music for Walt Disney Pictures. Hill divides his time between Chicago and his beloved Los Angeles, where he does his best to maintain a virtual existence.
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Lucy Honig is the author of the novels Waiting for Rescue and Picking Up and the story collections Open Season and The Truly Needy and Other Stories. Her work has been published widely, featured in two O. Henry Prize collections and in Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of the 1999 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and lives in Massachusetts. |
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Skip Horack is the author of the story collection The Southern Cross. He is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford, and was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He practiced law for five years in Louisiana and now lives in San Francisco, California.
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Silas House, editor of Coal Country, is the author of the novels Clay’s Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, and The Coal Tattoo, and of the nonfiction study Something’s Rising. He lives in eastern Kentucky.
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Isobella Jade is a model and writer based in New York City. She is the author of Model Life and the host of Model Talk Radio. She has been featured in many publications and forums worldwide.
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David Janssen is the co-author of Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music, an associate professor of English at Gordon College, and is the associate editor for Studies in Popular Culture. |
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Reverend Jen is the author of Live Nude Elf: The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen. For the past decade, she has been a staple of the Lower East Side’s art scene as a performer, painter, playwright, columnist, underground movie star, ASS Magazine founder, and Troll Museum curator.
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Robert Jensen teaches media law, ethics, and politics at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, Getting Off, The Heart of Whiteness, Citizens of the Empire,and Writing Dissent. |
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Prem Shankar Jha, author of Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger, is a former information advisor to the prime minister of India, and former editor of and contributor to Hindu, Hindustan Times, Economic Times, and Financial Express. He has recently been a visiting fellow at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University and the visiting chair in India’s Political Economics at the University of Science Politique in Paris.
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Shelton Johnson, author of Gloryland, has worked for the National Park Service since 1987 and currently serves as a ranger in Yosemite National Park. He has presented his original living-history program about a buffalo soldier at venues around the country and has received many honors and awards for this work. He and his wife and son live just outside Yosemite. |
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Rajiv Joseph received his BA in Creative Writing from Miami University and his MFA in Playwriting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa. He now lives in Brooklyn. |
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A noted poet, playwright, musician, songwriter, artist, and fisherman, Greg Keeler is a professor of English at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, where he lives with his wife. His memoir, published by Counterpoint, is Trash Fish.
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Rose Marie Kinder, who writes under the pen name R.M. Kinder, won the 2005 University of Michigan prize for A Near-Perfect Gift, a collection of short stories, and the Willa Cather Award in 1991 for another collection, Sweet Angel Band. She is also the author of the novel An Absolute Gentleman. R.M. Kinder’s prose has also appeared in Other Voices, Short Story, and the New York Times. The author holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. She currently resides in Warrensburg, Missouri.
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Caroline Knapp is the author of Appetites: Why Women Want and the best-selling books, Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs. She died in June 2002 at the age of forty-two. |
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Michael Muhammad Knight’s work has been censored, boycotted, confiscated, and threatened with legal action. He is the author of The Taqwacores, Impossible Man, Blue-Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America, Osama Van Halen, and The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-Hop and the Gods of New York, and is a frequent speaker at colleges and academic conferences. |
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Neil LaBute is a critically acclaimed playwright, filmmaker, and fiction writer. His most recent works for the stage include Fat Pig, which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off Broadway Play, and Reasons to be Pretty, which received a Tony nomination for Best Play. He divides his time between Chicago and Los Angeles.
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In novels such as Rosie and Joe Jones and in her nonfiction tomes touching on everything from writing to motherhood, Anne Lamott presents a biting wit and self-pity-free look at life’s tougher trials. Lamott skates on the edge of dysfunction, but faces the side of spirit and humor. |
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Jonathan Lethem is the author of Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and six other novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, The Paris Review, and many other periodicals. He lives in Brooklyn and Maine. |
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Joris Luyendijk was born in 1971 and is the author of People Like Us. He studied Arabic and politics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Cairo. In 2006, he was awarded the Journalist of the Year prize by De Journalist, selected from the top forty most influential international journalists by the NVJ (the Dutch Association of Journalists). |
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Also known as Iggy Scam, Erick Lyle edited the influential zine Scam and wrote the book On the Lower Frequencies. A musician, actor, and frequent contributor to the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Maximum Rocknroll, he lives in San Francisco. |
