Christopher Manes is an award-winning author, journalist and documentary film-maker His books include Green Rage (Little, Brown), nominated for a Los Angeles Times book award in science; and Other Creations: Rediscovering the Spirituality of Animals (Doubleday). Portions of Other Creations were anthologized in The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy Of Industrial Animal Factories (Univ. Of Cal. Press), which is the 2011 Winner of the Nautilus Book Award for Investigative Reporting, and the 2011 Independent Publishers Award for Outstanding Book "Most Likely to Save the Planet." His articles have ranged from solo treks across the interior of Iceland to Beowulf scholarship to explorations of environmental ethics. They have appeared in numerous publications, including Los Angeles Magazine, Mother Earth News, Environmental Ethics, Orion Nature Quarterly, Northern Lights, Houghton Mifflin's Encyclopedia of the Environment, English Language Notes, Human Ecology Review, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and have been widely anthologized and quoted. He wrote and produced the documentary Earth First!: The Politics of Radical Environmentalism, which was screened at the 1st Annual Environmental Film Festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with excerpts appearing on 60 Minutes, MTV, Inside Edition, and numerous news programs.