Janet Biehl (Cincinnati, 1953) North American anarchist, has become in recent decades one of the essential references for the knowledge of libertarian municipalism. She was a close collaborator of Murray Bookchin since the mid-1970s, together they produced the magazine Left Green Perspectives between 1987 and 2000. In recent years she has studied the experience of democratic confederalism in Kurdistan. In addition to this book, Janet Biehl has co-published with Peter Staudenmaier Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience (1996, forthcoming in Virus), coordinated The Murray Bookchin Reader (1997), and has written the biography Ecology or Catastrophe. The Life of Murray Bookchin (Virus, 2017).