Author Bios

Rod Bastanmehr is a freelance writer in New York City with a passion for music, film and culture. Follow him on Twitter @rodb.

Katie Rucke is a Mint Press editorial assistant and staff writer specializing in health, criminal justice, education, whistleblowers and watchdog investigations. Her investigations related to the coverage of the …

Athar Parvaiz has been an IPS contributor since 2008. Based in Srinagar, Indian Administered Kashmir, he writes about environment, health, human rights and development issues.

Erika L. Sánchez is a poet and writer living in Chicago. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan for Latinas, NBCLatino, the Guardian, Salon, Rolling Stone, Al Jazeera and other …

Frances A. Chiu is writing a book on Thomas Paine's Rights of Man for Routledge. A graduate of Oxford University, she teaches literature and history at The New School.

Christopher Fisher is an independent Sonoma County journalist whose work has appeared at Civil Eats, Grist, and the Petaluma Bounty blog. He is also the Vice President of the recently reborn Petaluma Grange, one …

Sam Carrigan is a writer from Virginia.