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Paul Kingsnorth has worked in an orang utan rehabilitation centre in Borneo, as a peace observer in the rebel Zapatista villages of Mexico, as a floor-sweeper in McDonalds and as an assistant lock-keeper on the river Thames. He studied history at Oxford University between 1991 and 1994, was arrested during the Twyford Down road protests of 1993 and was named one of Britain’s ‘top ten troublemakers’ by the New Statesman magazine in 2001.

Paul’s writing focuses on the connections between people and places, and on the increasingly strained relationship between humanity and the natural world. He has worked on the comment desk of the Independent and as deputy editor of The Ecologist, the world’s longest-running environmental magazine, writes widely in the media in outlets including the Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Ecologist, and has appeared on radio and TV. In 2009 he founded the Dark Mountain Project, an effort to bring together a new cultural and literary movement to respond honestly to the challenges of the coming century.

Paul’s first book, ONE NO, MANY YESES, an investigative journey through the anti-globalisation movement, was published in six languages in thirteen countries. His second book, REAL ENGLAND, was published in 2008. His debut poetry collection, KIDLAND, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. He is currently working on a novel.

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