Newhem’s a ghost – writer – for … he can’t say, lest goons stalk & shiv you. With an MA (U. of Manchester, UK), he’s placed in competitions & written 100+ mass-market books, articles, stories, & essays for publications/publishers including HarperCollins; Crown; Perigee; Adams; Utne Reader; North Dakota Quarterly; Writer’s Digest; Story; MadHat Lit; Origins; Brain, Child; Genre; Really; Gannett’s Journal News; & NewsCorp’s Times Herald-Record. Anthologized; twice Pushcart-nominated; NPR-produced; & selected Starcherone Books Prize finalist; featured on 200+ radio & TV shows. Newhem advocates for freelancers as contract adviser on the National Writers’ Union Service Organization board. He rescued orphan elephants in Kenya; winter-summited Kilimanjaro post-cancer; almost died skydiving; taught war reporting in Croatia; & he fights fires.