Ben Corbett

Writer and author Ben Corbett has spent the past 20 years cultivating an original voice in American journalism. Contributing to magazines and newsweeklies from coast to coast, his work has appeared in venues as far flung as VH1 and High Times, to Salon.com, Tattoo, Easyriders, Kirkus Reviews, Relix, Iron Horse, Crawdaddy! and many others. Corbett's award-winning current affairs book, “This is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives” (Basic)—now in its sixth printing—was endorsed by two former ambassadors to Cuba as the best book ever written about modern life on the island. In 2001, Corbett became the first American photographer to join Cuba's official photography association since the 1959 revolution. He was also the first American reporter to cover Cuba's explosive body art scene, its outlaw motorcycle subculture, and its illicit underground drug trade. Primarily an alternative and counterculture journalist, Corbett maintains his standing as a human rights and environmental advocate, as well as a scholar of Latin American affairs and North American Indian issues. Among his other achievements, Corbett wrote the introduction for the Literary Edition of Dr. Hunter Thompson's visual biography, “Gonzo” (AMMO). You can also see one of Corbett's conversations with Thompson in the anthology of interviews, "Ancient Gonzo Wisdom" (DaCapo), edited by Anita Thompson. To learn more about the author, please visit his homepage at www.bencorbett.net.