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  • Susan Zakin

    Journalist: GQ, Vogue, Salon, The New York Times, etc. Author: Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement, a few others. MFA in fiction. Stepmom to brilliant, amusing boys.

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    Author, educator, and environmental activist; a founder of 350.org and Third Act.

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    I am a writer who has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter.

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    I was raised by a pack of wild televisions.

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    Brian Cullman is west village editor of the Journal of the Plague Years. He has written for The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, Details, Creem, The Village Voice and other papers. He has 3 solo albums on Sunnyside Records.

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