Mark Dowie is a former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine. He recently retired from the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where he taught science, environmental reporting, and foreign correspondence. Dowie’s works have won nineteen journalism awards, including four National Magazine Awards, a George Polk Award, a William Allen White Gold Medal, and a Media Alliance’s Meritorious Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by John F. Kennedy University and is the author of eight previous books.

His most recent book is Judith Letting Go: Six Months in the World’s Smallest Death Cafe (New Village Press, 2024).

Dowie is also featured in The Book of Judith (New Village Press, 2022).