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American journalist and author

Dean Kuipers Born March 1964 (1964-03) (age 62) Seattle, Washington, U.S. Occupation Journalist, writer Alma mater Kalamazoo College (BA) Period 1987–present Genre Non-fiction Notable works Operation Bite Back Burning Rainbow Farm Website www.deankuipersonline.com

**Dean Kuipers** (born March 1964) is an American journalist and author.[1] He is best known for his writing on the environment. His book *Burning Rainbow Farm* was selected as a 2007 Michigan Notable Book.[2][3][4] His other prominent work includes *[Operation Bite Back](/source/Operation_Bite_Back%3A_Rod_Coronado's_War_to_Save_American_Wilderness)*, a non-fiction book about activist [Rod Coronado](/source/Rod_Coronado) and the use of domestic terrorism charges against environmentalists in the United States.[5][6][7]

## Early life and education

Kuipers was born in the [Seattle](/source/Seattle) area, where his father was serving in the [United States Air Force](/source/United_States_Air_Force).[8] He lived in [Marysville, Washington](/source/Marysville%2C_Washington) and [Everett, Washington](/source/Everett%2C_Washington) before his family relocated to [West Michigan](/source/West_Michigan).[9] He earned a degree in English from [Kalamazoo College](/source/Kalamazoo_College) in 1987.

## Career

In 1987 Kuipers moved to New York City to work at *[Ear Magazine](/source/Ear_Magazine)*, an [avant-garde](/source/Avant-garde) music publication. He became a staff writer at *[Spin](/source/Spin_Magazine)* in 1989. He also reported on local politics, and he and a girlfriend were beaten by police while he was covering the [Tompkins Square Park riot](/source/Tompkins_Square_Park_riot_(1988)) in 1988.[10]

In 1994, Kuipers moved to [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles) to work for [*Ray Gun*](/source/Ray_Gun_(magazine)), where he helped launch several other lifestyle titles. He worked with artist [Doug Aitken](/source/Doug_Aitken) on his 1997 film, *Diamond Sea*, and other films. He became the founding news editor of alternative newsweekly *[LA CityBeat](/source/LA_CityBeat)* in 2004.[11] His non-fiction book *Burning Rainbow Farm* tells the story of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, Michigan marijuana activists who were killed by the [Federal Bureau of Investigation](/source/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation) and [Michigan State Police](/source/Michigan_State_Police) officers a standoff in 2001.[12][13] He joined the *[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)* in 2007 as a digital edition editor, then worked as a music editor and ran Greenspace, a blog operated by the city of [Seattle](/source/Seattle).[14][15] He remained with the company until 2012.

His work has also appeared in *[Playboy](/source/Playboy), [Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone), [Men's Journal](/source/Men's_Journal), [Orion](/source/Orion_(online_magazine)), [Interview](/source/Interview_(magazine)), [Travel & Leisure](/source/Travel_%2B_Leisure), [Outside](/source/Outside_(magazine)), [LA Weekly](/source/LA_Weekly)*, and other publications.[16][17][18]

## Selected work

- Kuipers, Dean; Aitken, Doug (2000). *I Am a Bullet : Scenes from an Accelerating Culture*. Crown; 1st edition. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0609604090](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0609604090).

- Kuipers, Dean (2006). [*Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke*](https://archive.org/details/burningrainbowfa00kuip). Bloomsbury USA. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1596911420](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1596911420).

- Kuipers, Dean (2009). *[Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness](/source/Operation_Bite_Back%3A_Rod_Coronado's_War_to_Save_American_Wilderness)*. Bloomsbury USA. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1596914582](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1596914582).

### As editor and contributor

- Kuipers, Dean (1997). *Ray Gun: Out of Control*. Simon & Schuster. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0684839806](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0684839806).

- Kuipers, Dean (2001). *I am Iman*. Universe Publishing. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780789306333](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780789306333).

- Kuipers, Dean (2019). *Ray Gun: The Bible of Music and Style*. Rizzoli. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8478-6315-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8478-6315-0).

### As contributor

- Aitken, Doug (1998). *Douglas Aitken Diamond Sea*. Book Works, London. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781870699464](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781870699464).

- Laura, Flanders (2007). [*The Contenders*](https://archive.org/details/contenders00flan). Seven Stories Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1583227893](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1583227893).

- Frank, Joshua (2008). *Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland*. AK Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781904859840](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781904859840).

- Doug Aitken: SONG 1. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. 2012. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780978906320](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780978906320)

- Signs of Life. Manic D Press, 1994. Jennifer Joseph.

- Acker, Kathy (1991). [*Black Ice Anthology Number 8*](https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/kathy-acker/signed/).

### Films

- *True Guardians of the Earth,* documentary directed by Eric Matthias (2010)

- Doug Aitken films *Diamond Sea, Bad Animal, These Restless Minds*, and *Into the Sun* (Research, writing and production) 1996–99

## Awards

- 2018 Best of the West award in business and financial reporting[19]

- 2007 Michigan Notable Book[20]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Fleming, Mike Jr. (March 22, 2017). ["'Room's Lenny Abrahamson Lights Up FBI Siege Tale 'Burning Rainbow Farm'"](https://deadline.com/2017/03/lenny-abrahamson-burning-rainbow-farm-fbi-seige-marijuana-farm-tom-crosslin-rollie-rohm-anonymous-content-film-4-1202048716/). Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Nonfiction Book Review: Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke by Dean Kuipers, Author, Bloomsbury $24.95 (374p) ISBN 978-1-59691-142-0"](https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59691-142-0). *Publishers Weekly*. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [*BURNING RAINBOW FARM by Dean Kuipers | Kirkus Reviews*](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dean-kuipers/burning-rainbow-farm/).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Combs, Cody. ["Rainbow Farm standoff will be made into movie"](http://wwmt.com/news/local/rainbow-farm-standoff-will-be-made-into-movie). WWMT. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Dean Kuipers | HuffPost"](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/dean-kuipers). *HuffPost*. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Terrorism laws are wrongly being used to round up eco-activists, says author Dean Kuipers"](https://grist.org/article/2009-07-23-terrorism-laws-used-to-round-up-eco-activists-dean-kuipers/). *Grist*. July 24, 2009. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Nonfiction review: 'Operation Bite Back'"](http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/06/nonfiction_review_operation_bi.html). *The Oregonian*. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Aistars, Zinta. ["Art Beat: The Deer Camp"](https://www.wmuk.org/post/art-beat-deer-camp). *www.wmuk.org*. Retrieved June 27, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Kuipers, Dean (May 14, 2019). [*The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them*](https://books.google.com/books?id=142SDwAAQBAJ&q=Dean+Kuipers+born+in+seattle&pg=PT123). Bloomsbury Publishing USA. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-63557-349-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-63557-349-7).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Purdum., Howard W. French, Michael Wines, Todd S. Purdum and Was Written By Mr. ["Melee in Tompkins Sq. Park: Violence and Its Provocation"](https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/14/nyregion/melee-in-tompkins-sq-park-violence-and-its-provocation.html). Retrieved April 25, 2018.{{[cite news](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_news)}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["2007 Southern California Journalism Award Winners"](http://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2007-Southern-California-Journalism-Award-Winners.pdf) (PDF).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["cannabisnews.com: Ashes At The End of Rainbow Farm"](http://cannabisnews.com/news/21/thread21924.shtml). *cannabisnews.com*. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** ["Killings at 'Rainbow Farm' Revisited"](https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1437385). NPR. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** ["Dean Kuipers"](https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/dean-kuipers/#!). *Los Angeles Review of Books*. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-15)** ["Greenspace – City of Seattle Blog"](https://greenspace.seattle.gov/#sthash.oOEc9KuG.dpbs). *greenspace.seattle.gov*. Retrieved June 27, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-16)** ["Playboy – April 1993"](http://www.iplayboy.com/issue/19930401). *Playboy | The Complete Archive*. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-17)** Kuipers, Dean (June 19, 2002). ["Busting the FBI"](http://www.laweekly.com/content/printView/2134939). *L.A. Weekly*. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-18)** ["Eco- warrior groups in the U.S."](https://totseans.com/totse/en/politics/green_planet/eco-war.html) *totseans.com*. July 2, 2007. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-19)** ["2018 results of the Best of the West journalism contest |"](http://bestofthewestcontest.org/?page_id=1349). *bestofthewestcontest.org*. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-20)** ["Rainbow Farm author visiting Cass library | Leader Publications"](https://www.leaderpub.com/2007/03/28/rainbow-farm-author-visiting-cass-library/). *www.leaderpub.com*. Retrieved April 25, 2018.

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