John Malkin

John Malkin is a journalist, musician, activist, photographer and filmmaker. "Punk Revolution! – An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism" is his third book, following "Sounds of Freedom: Musicians on Social Change and Spirituality" (2005) and "The Only Alternative: Christian Nonviolent Peacemakers in America" (2008) which highlights social change activists like MLK Jr., Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Kathy Kelly.

Malkin has hosted a weekly radio program for 25 years in Santa Cruz, California, where he lives with his wife and son. Malkin’s interviews and writings have been published internationally in Adbusters, Punk Planet, Razorcake, Spirituality & Health, Z Magazine, Ode, In These Times, Sojourners, The Sun, Film International, Shambhala Sun, Tricycle, Friends Journal, The Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Monterey Herald and other publications.

John Malkin is also a pianist / percussionist and has collaborated with a variety of ensembles, dancers and choreographers for 30 years including Tandy Beal, Mel Wong, Connie Kreemer, Frey Faust, Nita Little, Joe Goode, Miranda Janeschild and Rita Rivera. He’s played solo piano concerts internationally and has performed with West African Kora master Foday Musa Suso, German vocalist Christian Kesten, cellist Elaine Kreston and blues guitarist Paul Sprawl. Malkin has traveled internationally and has lived in West Berlin and Australia. He is now writing his first novel about hitchhiking across the Sahara Desert.