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 Hank Pellissier has written successfully in multiple forms. As a journalist, he was the Bay Area’s “Local Intelligence” columnist for the NYTimes.com - plus the “Odd Barking” and “Urban Animal” columnist for SFGate.com, and the “Naked World” columnist for Salon.com.

He was also a top writer for IEET.org, a Connecticut think tank, writing 7 of the Top 12 futurist articles in one year and 4 of the Top 12 in the subsequent year - penning a total of 83 forecasts. In education writing he authored 100 articles for GreatSchools.org plus he anonymously delivered 70+ children’s book reviews. He’s also written dozens or essays on political and economic topics.

As Hank ‘Hyena’ - he was a San Francisco performance artists and a Poetry Slam co-champion, anthologized in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. His theater pieces were praised by critics as “witty, quirky, with a knack for the provocative twist” - he also taught Stand-Up Comedy writing for five years, as director of the nonprofit Hyena Comedy Institute, and his Master’s thesis was on the “Insect Haiku of Kobayashi Issa.”

He has self-published 6 e-books, ranging from 225 ways to elevate or injure intelligence to Share the World: 28 Essays for a Fair Society. Most recently he launched a “noise activist” group in San Francisco, called RACCOON - the acronym for Radical Anti-Capitalist Collective of Outrageous Noise.