Canadian journalist Jill Lawless, author of Wild East: The New Mongolia, gave up a job as a big-city theatre critic to edit the ub Post, a fledgling independent newspaper in newly democratic Mongolia. She has written on Mongolia for Agence France-Presse, the Guardian, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Deutsche Welle radio, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and has ridden a horse, a camel, but not, alas, a yak. She lives in London.