Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth is the co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project, of which he was director from 2009-2017, and the co-author, with Dougald Hine, of Uncivilisation. He is also the author of ten books - three novels, two poetry collections and five works of non-fiction - all of which, it turns out, tell the same story: how we walked away from the wild world, and how we might get home again, if we can.
His most recent book Against the Machine: (Penguin Books) is published this month

Amongst other things, Paul has also been a floor-sweeper in McDonalds, a door-to-door carpet cleaning salesman, a Fleet Street journalist, a peace observer in a Zapatista village, a road protester and one of the founders of the Free West Papua Campaign He lives in the west of Ireland with his family, a dog, some chickens and a lot of trees. His website can be found at www.paulkingsnorth.net, His Substack Abbey of Misrule at https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/