Kristian Williams is a member of Rose City Copwatch in Portland, Oregon, and of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981).
In addition to Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, Williams is also the author of American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination (South End Press, 2006). He has contributed articles to Counter Punch, The World Today, The Columbia Journalism Review, and the collection We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism (Verso, 2003).
He is presently at work on a book about Oscar Wilde and anarchism.
Joy James is the author of Resisting State Violence and editor of several anthologies on transformative politics and incarceration, including (Neo)Slave Narratives and Imprisoned Intellectuals; The New Abolitionists: Contemporary Prison Writings; and Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy. She teaches at Williams College.