Our Authors

Daniel M. Kimmel

Daniel M. Kimmel is a Boston-based film critic whose reviews appear in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. He is the Boston correspondent for Variety and a past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics. He is an award-winning author of several books, including The Fourth Network, a history of FOX broadcasting, and The Dream Team, a history of DreamWorks. He is also a regular contributor to the Internet Review of Science Fiction.

Kristina Kincaid

Dr. Kristina Kincaid is the Director of Integral of Evolutionary Tantra Institute in New York City. IET teaches, coaches, and mentors individuals to take the next step in self-transformation. IET was created to develop cutting-edge Leaders, Projects, and Initiatives of conscious collaboration in the world. IET understands that in order to respond to the challenges that face our planet today, it is imperative to create a WE space, where we as individuals and individual systems realize that enlightened consciousness is beyond ego, and is the essential next stage of self transformation.

Kristina is on faculty at The Institute of Core Energetics and holds an M.A. in Energy Medicine and a Doctorate in Theology from Holos University. A graduate of the Institute of Core Energetics and the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, she also holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin. She is also the Chairperson and creator, along with Dr. Gafni, of the Outrageous Love Projects which are an affiliate of the Center for Integral Wisdom. The Outrageous Love Projects are community writing and art initiatives birthed from Dr. Gafni’s creation of a community practice of writing love letters. The movement’s intention is to literally democratize enlightenment, empowering everyone to radically participate in the very evolution of love itself.

Kristina has traveled extensively, studying indigenous healers around the world and documenting her findings in a film series called In Search of Healing. Her passions include the deep mysteries of the body, genetics, and evolution. Her journey has taken her into deep explorations of the feminine and healing around sexuality. She has a Healing practice in New York City.

Books by Kristina Kincaid

Michelle King

Dr. Michelle P. King is a globally recognized inequality and organizational culture expert, and believes we need to learn how workplaces work to make them work for everyone. She is the host of The Fix podcast, and the author of the award-winning books, How Work Works (Harper Business, 2023) and The Fix (Atria, 2020). A published academic with five degrees, Michelle is pursuing a post-doctoral research fellowship with Cranfield University in the United Kingdom.

Michelle has been featured by The Economist, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, CNN Business, Fortune, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Time, New York Post, and CNN. In addition, she has spoken at over 500 events worldwide, including conferences like the Nobel Peace Prize Conference, Ellevate Network Conference, The Massachusetts Conference for Women, Texas Conference for Women, and SXSW, and for companies like Amazon, FIFA, Guardian, Dior, and FedEx.

Books by Michelle King

Dalia Kinsey

Dalia Kinsey is a registered dietitian, keynote speaker, and inclusive wellness coach with years of experience working at the intersection of holistic wellness and social justice in public and private sectors. Dalia rejects diet culture and teaches people to use nutrition as a self-care and personal empowerment tool to counter the damage of systemic oppression. On a mission to amplify the health and happiness of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ folks Dalia continually creates wellness tools and resources that center the most vulnerable individuals that hold multiple marginalized identities. Dalia’s work can be found at https://www.daliakinsey.com/

Books by Dalia Kinsey

Don Hyun Kiolbassa

Don Hyun Kiolbassa is a martial arts champion, the motion capture model for the character Scorpion in the Mortal Kombat franchise, a lawyer, a CPA, a business owner, and a dynamic speaker and performer. 

Books by Don Hyun Kiolbassa

Daniel S. Kirschenbaum

Daniel S. Kirschenbaum

Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Behavioral Medicine & Sport Psychology in Chicago and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Medical School. He has served as a consultant to dozens of professional journals, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the National Basketball Association, the Ladies Professional Golf Association, the World Scientific Congress on Golf and several major corporations. He is the author of The 9 Truths about Weight Loss. He lives in Chicago.

Books by Daniel S. Kirschenbaum

Paul Kix

Paul Kix was educated in the public schools of rural Iowa and is a 2003 graduate of Iowa State University. He interned at many places, most notably ESPN the Magazine, found permanent employment in Phoenix at New Times, and then, in 2004, moved to Dallas and the city’s alt-weekly, the Observer. He is now associate editor at D magazine, Dallas’s monthly magazine. In his office cube is a miniature Cadillac Escalade. It has spinners. Paul’s proud of those spinners.

Michael A. Klaper, MD

Michael A. Klaper, MD, is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. He has practiced acute care medicine in Hawaii, Canada, California, Florida, and New Zealand and for the past 35 years, has been focusing upon health-promoting food and lifestyle choices to help reverse disease and prevent the need for hospitalization and surgery.

Dr. Klaper is board-certified by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and has served as nutrition advisor to NASA’s programs for space colonists on the Moon and Mars. He recently joined the staff of Aroga Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in Victoria, BC, and continues his work with the nonprofit Moving Medicine Forward initiative (MovingMedForward.org), which teaches medical students about reversing chronic disease utilizing plant-predominant nutrition.

Books by Michael A. Klaper, MD

Karen K. Klaren

Karen K. Klaren lives, loves, and laughs with her husband, Kevin, and their children, Kaleigh and Kevin, Jr. in the U.S.A. She enjoys giving directions for people to go back where they came from, and would like to speak to the manager.

Books by Karen K. Klaren

Amanda Anne Klein

Amanda Anne Klein is a Ph.D. candidate in film studies in the English department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation is a case study of 1990s ghetto action films and a theorization of how and why film cycles form. Her publications include forthcoming essays in the journal The Quarterly Review of Film and Video and in the anthologies Deadwood: A Western to Swear By and Media(ted) Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations. She has also published online essays and reviews in Critical Quarterly Debates, Reality Blurred: Exposed and PopMatters.