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Millar

Martin Millar is an author, playwright, and journalist. In addition to the Thraxas series, he is the author of The Good Fairies of New York, Lonely Werewolf Girl, and Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me. He lives in London.

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David Miller, editor of The Lariat and Other Writings, is an associate editor of Poetry Salzburg Review and a Research Fellow in English Literature at Nottingham Trent University. He lives in England.

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Lydia Millet’s books include Everyone’s Pretty, How the Dead Dream, and My Happy Life, winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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Editor of Sanctuary, the journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, John Hanson Mitchell is also the author of many books, including Following the Sun: A Bicycle Pilgrimage from Andalusia to the Hebrides and The Rose Café. He has received the John Burroughs Essay Award, as well as the New England Booksellers’ Award. He lives in Littleton, Massachusetts.

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Tetsuo Miura is the recipient of the Akutagawa Prize for Literature (for Shame in the Blood), the Noma Literary Prize, the Japan Literature Grand Prize, the Osaragi Jiro Prize, and the Kawabata Prize. He lives in Japan.

 

Lyndsay Moseley directs Sierra Club’s Faith Partnerships Initiative in Washington, D.C., and formerly was on the staff of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. A nationally recognized leader in creation care and bridging the divide between secular and religious communities, she is a contributor to An Emerging Manifesto of Hope, edited by Brian McLaren, and the co-editor of Holy Ground: A Gathering of Voices on Caring for Creation.

 

Andrew Mueller

Born in Australia, Andrew Mueller is a London-based foreign correspondent, travel writer, rock critic, and author who has reported on misadventures in more than seventy countries. He is the author of I Wouldn’t Start from Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong.

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Kevin Myers

Kevin Myers, author of Watching the Door: Drinking Up, Getting Down, and Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast, is a writer, broadcaster, and novelist who covered the Lebanese Civil War in the 1980s and the Bosnian War in the 1990s, and is currently a columnist for the Irish Independent. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Myles

Eileen Myles is a novelist, poet, and performance artist. Her books include The Inferno and Cool for You. She lives in New York City.

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Eric Nadler

Eric Nadler, co-author of Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail, is a television producer and award-winning filmmaker who has produced several PBS Frontline programs.

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Arne Naess’s long career includes a prestigious professorship in the University of Oslo’s philosophy department and major contributions to the Deep Ecology Movement. The Ecology of Wisdom, a collection of his essential writings, was edited by Alan Drengson and Bill Devall. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Oslo and a fellow of their Center for Development and Environment.

 

Eric Nadler

Daniel Nester’s writing has appeared in Best Creative Nonfiction, Open City, Nerve, Daily Beast, Best American Poetry, Bloomsbury Review, Poets & Writers, and Bookslut, among others. He is the author of How to Be Inappropriate, the former sestinas editor for McSweeney’s, and he teaches at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York.

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Eric Nadler

Tim Newton, author of The Forgotten Gospels: Early, Lost, and Historical Writings on the Life and Teachings of Jesus, was educated at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. A classics scholar, Greek teacher, and bibliophile, he recommended and sourced books for the artist Robert Lenkiewicz’s extraordinary collection, which the British Library called “one of the most important in the world.” He lives on Dartmoor in England.

Cornelia Nixon

Cornelia Nixon has written three novels, Jarrettsville, Now You See It and Angels Go Naked, as well as a book of literary criticism. She has published stories in numerous publications, and has won two O. Henry Awards, two Pushcart Prizes, a Nelson Algren Prize, and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. She lives in Berkeley, California.

camden noir

Upon graduating from high school in 2002, camden noir, author of Label 228, joined the U.S. Army and served on two overseas tours, spending time in both Afghanistan and Iraq. After ending his service with the military in 2006, he moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he is now a full-time student and freelance interior designer.

Eric Nadler

Helena Norberg-Hodge, author of Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World, is the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, a nonprofit concerned with the protection of biological and cultural diversity. A co-founder of the International Forum on Globalization, she is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, and the author of numerous books. She lives primarily in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Ohle

A native of New Orleans, David Ohle’s short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, and the Paris Review. He is the author of Pisstown Chaos and compiled and edited Cursed From Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

 

 

Kay Bozich Owens has been published in Morbid Curiosity and Fazed. Lynn Owens is a sociologist. They wrote Lost in the Supermarket: An Indie Rock Cookbook. The authors live in Burlington, Vermont.

Pancake

Ann Pancake is a native of Romney, West Virginia. Her short story collection, Given Ground, was published in 2000. Her fiction, nonfiction, and scholarly work has been published widely and her numerous awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Whiting Writers Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first novel is Strange As This Weather Has Been. She currently lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Eliot Pattison is the author of The Skull Mantra—which won the Edgar Award and was a finalist for the Gold Dagger—as well Water Touching Stone, and Bone Rattler. Pattison is a world traveler and frequent visitor to China, and his numerous books and articles on international policy issues have been published around the world. His book Breaking Boundaries was selected by the New York Times as one of the five best management books of the year. Pattison resides in rural Pennsylvania with his wife, three children, two horses, and two dogs on a colonial-era farm.

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Olivier Pauvert is a pharmacist in southwestern France. Noir is his first novel.

 

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