Rebecca Solnit is the author of eleven books, including Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, forthcoming this spring from U.C. Press, 2004's Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, and 2003's River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, which won a Guggenheim in its research phase and several awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, after publication. An activist and a longtime San Franciscan, she writes regularly for Tomdispatch, Orion, Sierra, and other outlets about landscape, cities, and other geographies, the environment, politics, and visual culture. She is also a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award.