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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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.

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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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.

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.

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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