About the author

Bronwyn Mauldin is a writer and creator of The Democracy Series zine collection, which you can find in bookstores and libraries across the US, and in a time capsule. Her novel, Love Songs of the Revolution, is a literary thriller about one man’s struggle to solve his wife’s murder, set against a backdrop of geopolitical turmoil in the last days of Soviet Lithuania. 
She's also the founding editor of the Artists 4 Democracy Newsletter. 

Bronwyn is a past winner of The Coffin Factory magazine’s Very Short Story Award. ​Her prose has appeared at CutBank, Akashic Books, Gold Man Review, Literature for Life, Necessary Fiction, CellStories, The Battered Suitcase, Blithe House Quarterly, Clamor magazine and in dada anthologies Maintenant 14 and Maintenant 15 (forthcoming). She wrote about her experiences at the Battle in Seattle in From ACT-UP to the WTO (Verso). Her poetry has appeared in Watchung Review, The Typescript, and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California (Scarlet Tanager). She publishes every once in a while on Medium and reviews books at TNBBC. She has been a writer in residence at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado and Denali National Park in Alaska. 

She founded and for many years ran GuerrillaReads, the online video literary magazine that takes literature to the streets. She was also a host of Indymedia on Air on KPFK, the Pacifica radio network affiliate in LA. When she's not writing, making zines, and trying to build a better democracy, she heads up the research division at the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, where she has written and overseen a number of acclaimed studies on the arts and arts workers.