About the Author

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Bill Hatcher is the author of three books (so far!) published by Lantern Publishing and Media: 

• The Red Planet: Gendered Landscapes and Violent Inequalities (2024)
• Principles of Flight: Flying Bush Planes Through a World of War, Sexism, and Meat (2018)
• The Marble Room: How I Lost God and Found Myself in Africa (2012)

The Red Planet is a Finalist in the 2025 National Indie Excellence Awards in the category Social/Political Change. 

Principles of Flight was a 2019 Finalist in the National Indie Excellent Awards in the category Social/Political Change.

In addition to writing, Bill has investigated sacred gendered spaces of the Haya in Tanzania, and he continues to research the intersections of misogyny, racism, religion, animal cruelty, meat-eating, and environmental degradation worldwide. 

Bill has instructed geography and anthropology courses since 1994 and lives in southern Colorado with his wife, Kim.