Author Bios

Jack Heyman has worked 45 years in the maritime industry as a seaman and as an Oakland longshoreman.

Rob Nixon is the Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His most recent book is Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard …

Sheri Stuart is a freelance writer with Inland Valley News, where she covers education issues. She received a 2011 NAM Education Beat Fellowship for ethnic media journalists on the …