Orion Magazine - January/February 2012

Contributors

Laura El-Tantawy

Pam Houston

Paul Kingsnorth

Joe Wilkins

Terry Tempest Williams
Laura El-Tantawy is an Egyptian pho
tographer living in Egypt and the UK. A
freelance photographer since 2006, her
work has been exhibited all over the world.

Peter Friederici teaches journalism at Northern Arizona University in Flagsta=. He is the author, most recently, of Nature’s Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation.

Karen Glaser’s Dark Sharks/Light Rays was exhibited in its entirety at PHOTO Gallery in Oakland, California. Selections from the series will be on display at the Corden Potts Gallery in San Francisco in January 2012.

Lisa M. Hamilton’s writing and pho tography focus on agriculture and rural communities. She is the author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness and Farming to Create Heaven on Earth. Her most recent project is “Real Rural,” a multimedia exploration of rural California.

Pam Houston is the director of creative writing at the University of California, Davis, and a Million Mile Flyer on United Airlines. Her piece in this issue of Orion is excerpted from her fifth book, the novel Contents May Have Shifted, forthcoming in February from W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., and used by permission.

Paul Kingsnorth has been writing about environmental issues for fifteen years. In 2009, he cofounded the Dark Mountain Project, a cultural and creative response to an age of ecocide. He lives in Cumbria, in northern England.

Kateri Kosek’s poetry and essays have appeared in Blueline, Creative Nonfiction, and on Terrain.org. She teaches English at Marist and Dutchess community colleges in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Cecily Parks is the author of the poetry collection Field Folly Snow. She recently earned a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. A new resident of Cam bridge, Massachusetts, she teaches poetry writing at Columbia University.

Dan Shepherd is a fine art photogra pher based in Los Angeles. He has worked at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Patagonia’s Freedom to Roam coalition to protect wildlife corridors.

Mark Svenvold is the author of the nonfiction book Big Weather and Empire Burlesque, a poetry collection. He teaches writing at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.

Joe Wilkins is the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, forthcoming in March, and two collections of poetry. He lives with his wife, son, and daughter in north Iowa. His piece “Out West,” pub lished in the September/October 2009 issue of Orion, was a National Magazine Award finalist.

Terry Tempest Williams’s new book, When Women Were Birds, will be pub lished this spring by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Williams is a monthly columnist for The Progressive, and the 2011 recipient of the International Peace Award given by the Community of Christ.