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July Oskar Cole learned to swim in the TVA lakes of Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and to identify wild plants in the forests of the Cumberland Plateau. He learned most of the rest in the deserts of the U.S. Southwest: philosophy and astronomy in the Sangre de Cristo foothills, alternative building and “charco” style greywater practices in the Rio Grande bosque, and in the Basin and Range territory more things than can be listed. He is the co-editor of Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he keeps bees, designs and installs greywater treatment wetlands, and sells books. |
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Evan S. Connell is the author of eighteen books, including Francisco Goya, Deus Lo Volt?, Mrs. Bridge, and Lost in Uttar Pradesh. He has received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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Alex Cox’s best-known films, Sid and Nancy and Repo Man, are often credited as the first truly independent movies. His autobiography, published by Soft Skull Press, is titled X Films. He lives in Oregon.
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Camille de Toledo studied history in London and photography and film in New York. Also a filmmaker, screenwriter, and novelist, he lives in Paris. He is the author of Coming of Age at the End of History.
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Dorothea Dieckmann was born in Freiburg, Germany. She studied literature and philosophy and now works as an essayist and literary critic. In 1990 she was awarded the Hamburg Prize for Literature. She wrote the novella Die Schwere und die leichte Liebe (Heavy Love, Light Love), for which she received the Marburg Prize for Literature in 1996, and the novel Guantanamo. In 1997 she was awarded the Stipend of the German Culture Foundation in Wiepersdorf Castle, and in 2004 she was a fellow in the Ledig House in Ghent, New York. |
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Michael Downing is the author of Spring Forward and the Book Sense pick Shoes Outside the Door, as well as four novels, including Perfect Agreement and Breakfast with Scot. He teaches creative writing at Tufts University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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Susan Dunlap is the author of nineteen novels, including the Darcy Lott mystery series (A Single Eye and Hungry Ghosts), a collection of short stories, and editor of an anthology. She has won Anthony and Macavity Awards and has been president of Sisters in Crime. Her day jobs have ranged from teaching Hatha yoga to working on a death penalty defense team. She and her husband live near San Francisco.
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A native New Yorker, Benita Eisler has worked as an art editor, reporter, on-camera correspondent, and producer of arts programming for pubic television. Her interest in the varieties of artistic expression is reflected in her teaching and writing: She has taught the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel at Princeton and is the author of biographies of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Lord Byron, and George Sand (Naked in the Marketplace). She lives in Manhattan. |
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Iain Ellis is the author of Rebels Wit Attitude. He teaches English and youth culture studies at the University of Kansas and writes for PopMatters. Ellis lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Jonathan Evison has worked a wide array of jobs, from syndicated talk radio host to rotten tomato sorter—in the former role, his comedy show “Shaken Not Stirred” was nominated for two Peabody Awards. He has received two Silver Microphones, and two Communicators, and was frequently nominated for the Soundie Award. His lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and is the author of the novel All About Lulu.
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