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“Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.”  Gustave Flaubert

NEWS:

HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD

Unearthing Paradise is a finalist for the High Plains Book Award! Winners announced October 21, 2017.

ONE FINE PAGE: An Evening with Park County Authors

Pleased to be reading on Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. for One Fine Page: An Evening with Park County Authors at the Yellowstone Gateway Museum, Livingston, MT.

ARTISTS FIELD GUIDE TO GREATER YELLOWSTONE

Pleased to have a piece, “Land of the Lynx,” paired with artwork by Carrie Wild,  forthcoming in Artists Field Guide to Greater Yellowstone, Katie Holsinger Ed.  Includes works by Rick Bass, Gary Ferguson, Doug Peacock, Kelsey K. Sather, Jack Turner, Todd Wilkinson, Terry Tempest Williams, and many others. Thank you Artists Field Guide to Greater Yellowstone!

COUNTRY BOOKSHELF READING

Pleased to be reading on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at the Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT.

ELK RIVER BOOKS READING

Thrilled to be reading at the book release party for Unearthing Paradise: Montana Writers in Defense of Greater Yellowstone, Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at Elk River Books, Livingston, MT.

Montana Quarterly

Book Reviews, Montana Quarterly, Winter Issue, December, 2016.

Edward Unspooled by Craig Lancaster

A Bloom of Bones by Allen Morris Jones

Yellowstone: A Journey Through America’s Wild Heart by David Quammen

Thank you, Montana Quarterly!

INCUS NIGHT READING

Pleased to be reading a short story at Incus Night, Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the Emerson Cultural Center’s Weaver Room, Bozeman, MT. Thank you, Thunderhead Writers’ Collective!

UNEARTHING PARADISE: Montana Writers in Defense of Paradise

Thrilled to have a short story, “Trout Tears,” in Unearthing Paradise: Montana Writers in Defense of Paradise, Elk River Books Press, December 2016. Edited by Marc Beaudin, Seabring Davis, and Max Hjorstberg, with a foreword by Terry Tempest Williams. Includes works by Rick Bass, Amanda Fortini, Tami Haaland, William Hjortsberg, Jim Harrison, Greg Keeler, Doug Peacock, Shann Ray, and many others. Thank you Unearthing Paradise: Montana Writers in Defense of Paradise!

Montana Quarterly

Book Reviews in Montana Quarterly, Fall Issue, September, 2016.

Fifty-Six Counties by Russell Rowland

The Names of the Stars  by Pete Fromm

Swift Dam by Sid Gustafson

Thank you Montana Quarterly!