Contributors

Peter Clothier is a recovering academic whose blogs The Buddha Diaries and Persist: The Blog are now widely read. His most recent publication is Persist: In Praise of the Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad With Commerce.

Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Ph.D. is an award-winning writer and educator interested in how people figure out who they are. She is currently Visiting Scholar at Brown University.

Cynthia Ferrell is a Los Angeles playwright and librettist.

Donald Freed is one of America’s great theatre treasures, and our most profound playwright of politics and the human condition.

Edward Goldman is the art critic for Los Angeles NPR-affiliate KCRW-FM. Formerly employed by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Goldman is a sought-after consultant and frequent public speaker. He teaches an ongoing seminar on art collecting, which he calls his “art gypsy caravan.”

Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, teacher, and the editor and publisher of ONTHEBUS, one of the top literary journals in the country.

Susan Griffin is a prominent poet and writer. She is the co-editor of Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World, the recipient of a Guggenheim Award, an Emmy and an NEA fellowship, and she has published twenty books, one of which, A Chorus of Stones, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Hoyt Hilsman is an award-winning screenwriter, critic and former Congressional candidate. He was a critic for Daily Variety and is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. His novel, 19 Angels, a political thriller, is in development as a feature film.

Charity Hume is a writer and teacher who lives and works in Los Angeles

Bari Hochwald is Founder and Artistic Director of The Global Theatre Project which focuses on creating opportunities for healthy cultural diplomacy through theatre, as well as an actor and theatre director.

Jerry Kavanagh is a former editor at New York Magazine and Conde Nast.

Adam Leipzig is the publisher and managing editor of this online magazine.  He trains creatives and entrepreneurs to get their best work into the world, and consults for the entertainment and other industries.

Leeza Watstein Mota is an independent filmmaker, a producer and director of theatre, and consultant on audiobook production.

Alyssa Noel, a recent Columbia journalism graduate, currently working at The Province newspaper in Vancouver, Canada, spends too much money on concert tickets and good old fashioned records.

Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D., is an award-winning scholar interested in racial and gender identities, media representation and visual art of all kinds. She is a full time faculty member at Simmons College and Visiting Scholar at Brown University.

Garner Simmons is a writer and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles.

John Steppling, one of America’s most influential playwrights, recently returned to Los Angeles after a decade in Europe. He is artistic director of Gunfighter Nation, where he leads workshops and creates new theatre.

Guy Zimmerman is the Artistic Director of Padua Playwrights.

We also have the kind and generous permission of these sites and writers, who allow us to re-post selections from their work. We invite you to visit their sites regularly to experience more of what they do.

Argot and Ochre
Artsmeme, Debra Levin’s fine arts blog
Art Talk, Edward Goldman’s commentary on KCRW
Chloe Veltman’s blog
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
John Bailey’s Baliwick, via the American Society of Cinematographers
Jumper, Diane Ragsdale’s blog on what the arts do and why, via artsJournal
Literary Kicks, Levi Asher’s literary blog
Long Beach Post
Real Clear Arts, Judith H. Dobrzynski’s blog on culture, especially museums, via artsJournal
Our Weekly
The Artful Manager, Andrew Taylor’s blog on the business of arts and culture, via artsJournal
The American Scholar, where columnists William Deresiewicz and William Zinsser post weekly
The Times Quotidian, an arts and culture journal; Nancy Cantwell is the publisher and editor-in-chief
The Web of Language, Dennis Baron’s go-to site for language and technology in the news