Dean Kuipers

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Dean Kuipers
BornMarch 1964 (1964-03) (age 57)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
OccupationJournalist, writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Kalamazoo College (BA)
Period1987–present
GenreNon-fiction
Notable worksOperation Bite Back
Burning Rainbow Farm
Website
www.deankuipersonline.com

Dean Kuipers (born March 1964) is an American journalist and author. [1] He is best known for his writing on the environment. His book Burning Rainbow Farm was selected as a 2007 Michigan Notable Book. [2] [3] [4] His other prominent work includes Operation Bite Back, a non-fiction book about activist Rod Coronado and the use of domestic terrorism charges against environmentalists in the United States. [5] [6] [7]

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Early life and education

Kuipers was born in the Seattle area, where his father was serving in the United States Air Force. [8] He lived in Marysville, Washington and Everett, Washington before his family relocated to West Michigan. [9] He earned a degree in English from Kalamazoo College in 1987.

Career

In 1987 Kuipers moved to New York City to work at Ear Magazine , an avant-garde music publication. He became a staff writer at Spin in 1989. He also reported on local politics, and he and a girlfriend were beaten by police while he was covering the Tompkins Square Park riot in 1988. [10]

In 1994, Kuipers moved to Los Angeles to work for Ray Gun, where he helped launch several other lifestyle titles. He worked with artist Doug Aitken on his 1997 film, Diamond Sea, and other films. He became the founding news editor of alternative newsweekly LA CityBeat in 2004. [11] His non-fiction book Burning Rainbow Farm tells the story of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, Michigan marijuana activists who were killed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Michigan State Police officers a standoff in 2001. [12] [13] He joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007 as a digital edition editor, then worked as a music editor and ran Greenspace, a blog operated by the city of Seattle. [14] [15] He remained with the company until 2012.

His work has also appeared in Playboy, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Orion, Interview, Travel & Leisure, Outside, LA Weekly , and other publications. [16] [17] [18]

Selected work

As editor and contributor

As contributor

Films

Awards

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