He is a principal at NonFiction Media, a social justice–oriented multimedia production company based in Seattle.Photo by Scott SquireWilliam E. JusticeWilliam Emery Justice grew up on the grass seas of the Kansas prairie, far from boats but still prey to wind and storm. A fourth-generation Kansan, he attended the University of Kansas, where he studied Russian literature and language, German literature, and religion. He worked as a farm laborer, a pizza maker, a vacuum salesman (he didn’t sell a single machine), a roofer, a doughnut fryer, a bookbinder, a convenience store clerk (third shift), a copyist, and a video store clerk before becoming an acquisitions editor. He is the author of Edges of Bounty: Adventures in the Edible Valley and the children's book Kodoku.Photo by Scott Squire