Roger Gaess worked for many years as a copy editor/writer for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal online and several other news outlets.  He's published scores of articles as a freelance writer/journalist, in places including Le Monde diplomatique (Paris), the New York Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, CounterPunch and Middle East Policy (Washington).

In his early years he edited Leaving the Bough: 50 American Poets of the 80s (International, 1982), an anthology of younger American poets.

He is also a fine-art and stock photographer, and has worked for the Gamma-Liason (Paris/New York), Middle East Photo and Getty/Lonely Planet Images agencies.  His photographs have been exhibited in gallery shows and are included in public and private collections, in both the U.S. and Europe.  His photo website is www.rogergaess.com.