Marc Herman

Over a 20-year career, reporter Marc Herman has reported from volcanoes in Java, vaccine trials in Mozambique, fire festivals in Spain and Presidential debates in New Hampshire. He is the author of Searching for El Dorado, about his travels with South American gold miners. He is also the author of The Wizard and the Volcano, a reconstruction of the eruption of Indonesia’s Mt. Merapi, and The Shores of Tripoli, a dispatch from the Libyan civil war. He is a founding member of Deca, an international writer’s cooperative. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications including The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, Slate, The Believer and GQ. He lives in Barcelona.