P Archives – Lantern

Mark Peters

July 1, 2025

For over ten years, photographer Mark Peters has immersed himself in the everyday lives of the cow residents of farmed animal sanctuaries. He earns their trust by walking respectfully alongside the herd, coming to know each animal personally. Peters’ ability to earn the trust of his portrait subjects has resulted in numerous cow licks, having his ear chewed on and getting chased (but never caught) by playful “puppy cows” on occasion. Peters lives in Maryland with his wife, Alisa, and the two little dogs who rule their home.

Nathan Poirier

January 22, 2025

Nathan Poirier is a tutor and adjunct instructor at Lansing Community College, with graduate specializations in (critical) animal studies and women’s and gender studies, as well as advanced degrees in anthrozoology, mathematics, and sociology. Nathan co-edited the book Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies: Vegan Studies for Total Liberation (Peter Lang, 2022) and has several interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary publications in diverse animal studies and environmental journals and books.

Camila Perussello

January 7, 2022

Dr. Camila Perussello, PhD, is an engineer, university lecturer and researcher specializing in bioprocessing engineering and sustainable food systems. She has published dozens of academic papers and book chapters on engineering, thermal sciences, and agrifood production topics, and serves as a peer-reviewer for over twenty renowned scientific journals. Her animal advocacy includes books, op-ed articles, multidisciplinary research, university teaching, and talks at academic and non-academic events. Dr. Perussello is also the author of Vegan Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Plant-Based Living and Food for Thought: Planetary Healing Begins on Our Plate. As an ethical vegan with expertise in food engineering, she promotes animal liberation through both educational and pragmatic solutions. Her academic research and industry consulting services aim to accelerate a sustainable and just food system by advancing the plant-based food sector and helping farmers and companies transition away from animal use. Find more information at www.camilaperussello.com.

Gretchen Primack

February 5, 2021

Gretchen Primack is the author of two other collections, Visiting Days (Willow Books Editors Select Series 2019), set in a maximum-security men’s prison, and Doris’ Red Spaces (Mayapple Press 2014), as well as an earlier version of Kind (Post Traumatic Press 2012). She also co-wrote, with Jenny Brown, The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals (Penguin Avery 2013). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, The Massachusetts Review, The Antioch Review, and other journals and anthologies. Primack has administrated and taught with college programs and poetry workshops in prison for many years, and she moonlights at an indie bookstore in Woodstock, NY. Reach out to her at www.gretchenprimack.com.

Charles Patterson

August 22, 2020

Charles Patterson is a writer, editor, therapist, historian, animal advocate, and award-winning author of ten books. Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Russian, and Japanese (with Portuguese and Hungarian translations on the way).

Patterson’s other books include Anti-Semitism: The Road to the Holocaust and Beyond, The Civil Rights Movement, Marian Anderson (winner of the Carter G. Woodson Book Award), The Oxford 50th Anniversary Book of the United Nations, and From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall (co-authored with Holocaust survivor Mr. Marian Filar).

Patterson is a graduate of Amherst College, Columbia University (Ph.D.) and the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. He lives in New York City and is a member of PEN, The Authors Guild, and the National Writers Union.

Tatiana Forero Puerta

August 14, 2020

Tatiana Forero Puerta is originally from Bogotá, Colombia. A graduate of Stanford, New York, and Columbia universities, she has taught philosophy and yoga for a decade, including her post as an adjunct faculty member at New York University and the City University of New York. A columnist for New York Spirit, Park Slope Reader, and Elephant Journal, Tatiana is a recipient of the Stanford Garfield Prize in Ethics, the 2017 Pushcart Prize, a 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a finalist for the Blueshi Journal prize for writers of color. A contributing author of Religion and Psychology Research Progress, her work has also appeared in Able Muse, Flock, Juked, JOY: Journal of Yoga, and elsewhere. Tatiana lives in New York, where she teaches and writes. Her website is yogaforthewoundedheart.com.

Krissy Pozatek

August 14, 2020

Krissy Pozatek, MSW, formerly an adolescent therapist, currently works as a parent coach, with parents of struggling teens and young adults. Krissy received her education at Middlebury College, Smith College, and NM Highlands University. It is her quest to bring the internal-resiliency skills that kids gain from treatment into everyday parenting. She is the author of The Parallel Process, Brave Parenting, and Brave Teaching. In addition to parent coaching and writing, Krissy is a public speaker and conducts parent workshops and seminars nationally. She was also a visiting professor at her alma matter, Middlebury College, Vermont. Krissy is a parent of two young adult daughters. She lives in Vermont with her family.

Krissy coaches parents on her digital coaching platform at www.parallel-process.com. Krissy offers her Parallel Process Curriculum called Transform Your Parenting, Group Parent Coaching Classes, Pop-Up Workshops and Private Community. This platform allows parents to learn the skills in the curriculum classes and then come on the group classes and ask Krissy live questions about their unique parenting situations and struggles. Parents also have the benefit of learning from each other and in a group format.

Norm Phelps

August 14, 2020

Norm Phelps was the spiritual outreach director of The Fund for Animals, as well as a founding member of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV) and a contributing writer for Satya. His goal was for faith communities of all traditions to include animals within the scope of their compassionate ministries. Norm Phelps’s books include The Dominion of Love, The Great Compassion, The Longest Struggle, and Changing the Game. Norm passed away in the end of 2014. His website is animalsandethics.org.

Pythia Peay

August 14, 2020

Pythia Peay is an author and journalist on psychology, spirituality, and the American psyche. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Religion News Service, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. A regular contributor to The Huffington Post and Psychology Today, she has received awards for her work from The American Association of University Women and Women in the Media. She is the author of America on the Couch: Psychological Perspectives on American Politics and Culture (Lantern, 2015) and Soul Sisters: The Five Sacred Qualities of a Woman’s Soul (Tarcher, 2002). Her website is pythiapeay.com.