New Natives: Becoming Indigenous in a Time of Crisis & Transition - Paperback

Crowe, Thomas Rain: - Thomas Rain Crowe is an internationally-published and recognized author, editor and translator of more than thirty books, including the multi-award winning nonfiction nature memoir Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (2005); The End of Eden: Writings of an Environmental Activist (2008); an internationally acclaimed anthology of contemporary Celtic language poets entitled Writing the Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (The New Celtic Poetry) and his collection of poetry The Laugharne Poems written at the Dylan Thomas boathouse in Laugharne, Wales in 1993 and 1995. He has translated two volumes of the Sufi poet Hafiz-In Wineseller's Street (Iran Books) and Drunk On the Wine of the Beloved (Shambhala Press). He has belonged to and worked with several environmental organizations, has been an editor of major literary and cultural journals and anthologies and is founder and publisher of New Native Press (www.newnativepress.org). He lived in San Francisco during the 1970s working alongside all the people cited in his most recent book Starting From San Francisco: Beats, Baby Beats & The 1970s San Francisco Renaissance and was an original member of the group responsible for the resurrection of Beatitude magazine during those years as well as working with various bioregional groups in northern California. He is a longtime resident of the Southern Appalachians and lives in the Tuckasegee watershed and the "Little Canada" community of Jackson County in western North Carolina, USA. His archives are collected and housed at the Special Collections Library at Duke University.Lipscomb, Simone: - Simone Lipscomb has photographed nature for 47 years. She has been a creative writer since fourth grade where her imaginative stories earned a place on the teacher's A+++ wall.She documented the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill for a year, choosing seven areas of public land to follow from before, during, and after the disaster.Simone has photographed humpback whales, dolphins, sea lions, sea turtles, and other friends of the ocean. She has a deep love for wild places and wild life.Several books of her photography and prose have been published. She has included children in her efforts of environmental education, with three of her eleven books produced especially for kids.An active short-essay writer, Simone produces regular essays with her nature photographs. She also produces videos focused on nature and environmental education.Simone is a musician playing piano, djembee, frame drums, native flutes, and Celtic whistles. She often pairs her music with videos she produces.You can follow her on her website at: SimoneLipscomb.com and her YouTube channel @SimoneLipscomb.She's an avid hiker in the Smoky Mountains, as well as a fly fisher. Simone always seeks the energetic connection to all life as a way to inform her path.