About the Author

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder is the author of sixteen books of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived with his family in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Northern California. Jim Harrison was born in Michigan in 1937. A member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, he has published more than thirty books including Returning to Earth, The English Major, and Legends of the Fall. His several books of poems include most recently Saving Daylight and In Search of Small Gods. He divides his time between Michigan and Arizona. Paul Ebenkamp previously edited the Counterpoint title Song of Myself, a collection of poems from Walt Whitman. He lives and works in Berkeley, California.