Wen Stephenson
Veteran journalist, climate activist and author of Learning to Live in the Dark
Wen Stephenson is a veteran journalist, essayist, and climate-justice activist. A correspondent for The Nation and frequent contributor to The Baffler, he is the author of the new book Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of CatastropheĀ and of What Weā€™re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice. He is a former editor at The Atlantic and The Boston Globe and has written for those and many other publications, including Slate, The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Boston Phoenix, and elsewhere. In 2010, he left his career in mainstream media and has since covered, engaged in, and helped organize nonviolent resistance to fossil capital. He lives near Boston, and is a longtime member of the Open Meadow Zen group and Kwan Um School of Zen as well as a member of an Episcopal Church parish.
