Rivera Sun is an award-winning author and an internationally-respected teacher of strategy for nonviolent movements. She is the founding editor of the weekly Nonviolence News, the largest international journal devoted to the use of nonviolence in mass movements. She is the author of nine novels, as well as nine theatrical plays, three books of poetry, a book of highly opinionated essays and a study guide to nonviolent action.

Her essays on social justice are syndicated by Peace Voice and have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines.

Rivera co-hosted nationally syndicated weekly radio shows for over five years and has co-founded two nationwide nonviolent study and action groups.

She has been the program director for Pace e Bene/Campaign Nonviolence and is an advisor to many national and international social and environmental activist organizations.

Rivera’s webinars, readings and workshops are available on her website. She is happy to meet with classroom and activist groups and book clubs.

Rivera has red hair, a twin sister, and a fondness for esoteric mystics. She went to Bennington College to study writing as a Harcourt Scholar and graduated with a degree in dance. She lives in an earthship house in New Mexico, where she grows tomatoes, bakes sourdough bread, and drinks pu'erh tea. Rivera has been an aerial dancer, a bike messenger, and a gung-fu style tea server. Everything else about her -except her writing- is perfectly ordinary.

Rivera Sun sings the anthem of our times. Her work celebrates the everyday heroes hidden in activists and soccer moms, alike. Rich metaphor and exquisite writing thrust her novels and poetry into the realms of literary greatness, while the stories grab the social issues of our times by the collar and shakes them hard. A soaring tribute to the beauty of the human spirit and also a scathing indictment of contemporary culture, her work is unforgettable; it seizes you at the first page and sends you flying out the other side, refreshed, rejuvenated and empowered to change.

Rivera believes in being an embodiment of love-in-action in all that she does. A passionate participant in creating a just, sustainable, and peaceful world, she takes the responsibility of life seriously . . . and with a good dose of humor. Her novels focus on the social issues of our times, positing creative solutions as well as muckraking through the causes of suffering.

"Life is the ultimate adventure!" Rivera says.

Rivera is easy to connect with on Facebook and Twitter, or through the RiveraSun.com website. She encourages her readers to reach out, write reviews, and share their favorite quotes with others.

Rivera in her words:

I collect tangible heroes

imperfect and lovable

from all times and all nations, races and creeds

with their adventure-plot-metaphors

that we, ourselves, live

to inspire all people

to lead boldly authentic, everyday lives

deeply connected to themselves

each other

and this earth.

I pair complexity to simplicity

fold panoramas into packages

challenge one voice to speak many.

I leave room for music,

dance,

and physicality.

embodying the teller

in mind, heart, and soul.

The kitchen becomes a stage

the classroom a theater

every human a storyteller.

The tales become common

discussed over tea,

simmered with dinner

written in letters

rippling. . .

into our lives.