Dean Kuipers is an editor at the Los Angeles Times. Operation Bite Back,” his nonfiction book about eco-radical Rod Coronado and the use of domestic terrorism charges against environmentalists, was published by Bloomsbury USA in June, 2009. His book "Burning Rainbow Farm," about the 2001 FBI shooting of two libertarian pot activists on a farm in Michigan, was selected as a 2007 Michigan Notable Book. His work has also recently appeared in the 2008 titles, “The Contenders,” in which he wrote on Al Gore, and “Red State Rebels,” where the Rainbow Farm book is excerpted. He is the co-author of "I Am A Bullet," (Crown, 2000), a collaboration with photographer Doug Aitken on the acceleration of global culture. As a former editor at Spin and Raygun magazines, he wrote extensively on radical movements and rock’n’roll, with cover stories on Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, the Rolling Stones and many others. As author and editor of the 1997 graphics/pop culture book, “Ray Gun Out Of Control” (Booth-Clibborn Editions/Simon & Schuster Editions), he worked with contributors Bowie, REM's Michael Stipe, cyberpunk writer William Gibson and the world's foremost graphic designers. His work has appeared in Playboy, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Interview, Travel & Leisure, Outside, Spin, LA Weekly, and others.
Kuipers has worked on several short films by Doug Aitken and other directors, including Aitken's "Diamond Sea," an evocative rumination on the off-limits diamond mining zones of Namibia in southern Africa which debuted in the 1997 Whitney biennial exhibition. In 2000, Kuipers wrote the text for a book of Aitken's photographs by the same name. His fiction is published in anthologies including Signs of Life and the Black Ice Anthology. He grew up in Mattawan, Michigan, and graduated from Kalamazoo College, and now lives in Los Angeles with his son, Spenser.