16 Facts About Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth was born on 1972 and is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland.

Paul Kingsnorth is a former deputy editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project.

Paul Kingsnorth spent his childhood in southern England with two younger brothers.

Paul Kingsnorth's father was a passionate Thatcherite, a businessman, and a mechanical engineer.

Paul Kingsnorth describes his father's background as "working-class," and he says that his father pushed Paul Kingsnorth to go to university.

Paul Kingsnorth was the first in his family to do so.

At Oxford, Paul Kingsnorth edited the University's longest-running student newspaper, Cherwell.

Paul Kingsnorth has subsequently worked as commissioning editor for openDemocracy, as a publications editor for Greenpeace and, between 1999 and 2001, as deputy editor of The Ecologist.

Paul Kingsnorth was named one of Britain's "top ten troublemakers" by the New Statesman magazine in 2001.

In 2004, he was one of the founders of the Free West Papua Campaign, which campaigns for the secession of the provinces of Papua and West Papua from Indonesia, where Paul Kingsnorth was made an honorary member of the Lani tribe in 2001.

Paul Kingsnorth wrote about his spiritual journey and conversion to Christianity in a June 2021 essay in First Things.

Paul Kingsnorth announced retirement from journalism in late 2007 in a blog post.

In 2009, with writer and social activist Dougald Hine, Paul Kingsnorth founded the Dark Mountain Project, "a network of writers, artists, and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilisation tells itself".

Paul Kingsnorth was one of the project's directors until stepping down in 2017.

Paul Kingsnorth's sensibility sits comfortably with theirs and his literary achievement could well go on to be their equal.

In 2022, Paul Kingsnorth self-published The Vaccine Moment, a collection of his essays criticising public health mitigation of COVID-19.