Born and raised in Minnesota, Sheryl Noethe attended a high-school alternative program, Urban Arts, which allowed her to learn to write poetry. After winning the The American Academy of Poets Award and a McKnight Fellowship, she published her first collection of poetry, The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake. Other collections include The Ghost Openings—which was awarded the Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Award and the William Stafford Poetry Prize—As Is, and, most recently, Riding the Grey Dog Across the Big Sky. Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including Poems Across the Big Sky, Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart and I Go To the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights. In 2010 she was named Montana’s Poet Laureate. Now living at the foot of Mt. Jumbo in Missoula, Montana, Noethe is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Montana Arts Council Fellowship, the CutBank Hugo Prize in Poetry, and the Emerging Voices Award from New Rivers Press. [website]

Daniel Orozco is a writer of fiction known primarily for his short stories. His works have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology and magazines such as Harper's and Zoetrope. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer of Stanford University and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho. Perhaps Orozco's best-known short story is "Orientation", which originally appeared in The Seattle Review and has subsequently been included in The Best American Short Stories 1995, and presented in audio form on National Public Radio. Orientation and Other Stories, a collection of Orozco's work, was published last year.

Elsie Pankowski lives in Great Falls, MT and has been a telephone operator and a partner in an excavating company. She is a five-time First Place winner of the Mary Brennan Clapp Memorial Poetry Contest, open to all Montana poets. She has produced two chapbooks: a “Sunrust Featured Poet Chapbook” and Gathering Stones, published by Pudding House Publications. Their Voices Call in the Dark was published by Foothills Publishing in 2012. Her poetry and short prose have appeared in several hundred publications.

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent's career as a nonfiction author has spanned almost four decades, with more than 130 published books, mostly science and nature titles for young readers. She has also delved into historical subjects like Lewis & Clark and has coauthored three adult books and many magazine articles. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for the body of her work. Dorothy loves learning as much as she enjoys writing, and over time she has come to realize that story is the most powerful tool in capturing and keeping a reader's attention. Her latest books are The Horse and the Plains Indian: A Powerful Partnership, illustrated with photographs by her long time collaborator, William Munoz, and Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond.

Matt Pavelich is the author of the novel Our Savage (Counterpoint, 2004) and the short story collection Beasts of the Forest, Beasts of the Field (Owl Creek Press, 1991), which won the Montana First Book Award. He’s also been awarded Michener Foundation and Montana Arts Council fellowships. His new novels is The Other Shoe which he describes as “a story of good people doing bad things, an ensemble cast of Raskolnikovs being dragged or drawn toward hard reckoning in a remote corner of Montana. The book describes justice as a maddeningly moving target, but an aspiration, regardless of how unlikely it is to be attained, that is essential to our individual and collective humanity.” A former Marine and an attorney by trade, Pavelich grew up on a ranch on the Flathead Reservation, and has lived in all corners of Montana and many corners of the world working as a prosecutor, defense attorney and as a civilian employee for the Navy. He is newly moved from the Public Defender’s office in Glendive back west to Hot Springs, MT. The Montana Public Defender News describes his legal briefs as “amazing,” while Booklist calls his first novel Our Savage “rapturous and remarkable.”

Natalie Peeterse has an MFA from The University of Montana. Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Sonora Review and Strange Machine, among other journals and anthologies. Her new chapbook is Black Birds: Blue Horse, An Elegy. She has been a fellow with the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a participant at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and was most recently an artist in residence at the Caldera Institute in central Oregon. She lives in Missoula, Montana with her family.

David Quammen is the author of four books of fiction and seven nonfiction titles, including The Song of the Dodo, which won several national and international awards. In the past thirty years he has also published a few hundred pieces of short nonfiction—essays, columns, articles, reviews—in magazines such as Esquire, Outside, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and Harper's. He has been honored with an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award. His new book is Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. Quammen is a Contributing Writer for National Geographic Magazine, in whose service he travels often, usually to jungles, deserts, and swamps. Home is Bozeman, Montana.

Lois Red Elk is a poet, actor and culturist. She is Dakota/Lakota, born and raised on the Ft. Peck Reservation located in Northeastern Montana. Writing since she was a teen, her work has been published in numerous anthologies in the United States, Canada and the U.K. For a time she was the co-editor of her tribe’s newspaper, WotaninWowapi (News Paper), and she authored a weekly column titled Dakodicaga (Raised Dakota). Her human interest stories have appeared in Montana newspapers and national Native American newspapers. A 42 year member of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, she has worked in film, motion pictures, television and commercials, and on stage. Ms. Red Elk holds a B.A. in Teacher Education from Rocky Mountain College. Presently she is adjunct professor at Ft. Peck Community College and teaches Cultural Arts topics. She is has been married to her best friend and husband for 44 years, they have two children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Her first book, Our Blood Remembers, was recently published by Many Voices Press. In August, 2012, Our Blood Remembers won the best non-fiction award from Wordcraft Circle of Natives Writers and Storytellers.

Jim Robbins, a free-lance journalist for more than thirty years, lives with his family in Helena, Montana. He has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times since 1980, and has written for numerous magazines from Condé Nast Traveler to Smithsonian. He has carried out assignments in Europe, Mongolia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Yanomami Territory in Brazil and Venezuela, and across North America, especially the Rocky Mountain West. He is the author of four books of non-fiction, most recently The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet. His writing interests include science, the environment, and the human central nervous system. He considers the fact that he has been able to freely indulge his curiosity and get paid for it one of his greatest accomplishments. [website]

Dexter Roberts taught English and philosophy at the University of Montana for four decades. He is a founder of UM's Wilderness Studies Program. Tall and lanky, Dexter played basketball for Colgate. He’s lived in a little cabin up Grant Creek for the last 30 years, where he’s enjoyed the company of deer and bears and jays. A practicing Buddhist and friend of Gary Snyder, Dexter is a world traveler, an advocate, an activist, a father and grandfather. Writing all his life, Imagine a World is his first published book of poems.

Elizabeth Rosner lives in Berkeley, California, working as a full-time writer after having been an instructor of creative writing and composition at the college level for nearly thirty years. She offers writing workshops annually in Montana and at the Holland Lake Lodge. Rosner is a graduate of Stanford University, the MFA Program at U.C. Irvine, and the University of Queensland in Australia. Her first novel, The Speed of Light, was included in Book Sense 76 twice, and was selected as one of Borders Original Voices. The French edition was a finalist for the prestigious Prix Femina, and was awarded the Prix France Bleu Gironde. Her second novel, Blue Nude, was a national bestseller and named as one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s best books of 2006. [website]

Randy Rupert was raised in Montana and has spent years in sales and marketing. But, according to Rupert, no business deal can compare to the experience of writing his first book, A Dog-Gone Tale, and creating a lasting memory for his son and daughter.

Erin Saldin went on her first backpacking trip in central Idaho at age fourteen. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Best New American Voices series, as well as multiple literary magazines. She teaches creative writing and honors courses at the University of Montana-Missoula. The Girls of No Return is her first novel. In two starred reviews, Kirkus Reviews called The Girls of No Return, “[R]ichly rewarding” and “[A] smashing debut” and Booklist raved “So much more than a typical problem novel, this psychological mind-bender is raw, gripping, and deftly rolled out by a writer-to-watch.”

Candace Savage is the author of over two dozen works of nonfiction, including, most recently, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory in a Prairie Landscape. She is the recipient of many honors including multiple Saskatchewan Book Awards. She is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada is on the honor roll of the Rachel Carson Institute. She lives in Saskatoon with the art historian Keith Bell. [website]

Philip F. Schuster practices law in Portland, Oregon. He has been a contributing author to publications in the areas of environmental law and family law. He was a good friend of the late Curly Bear Wagner, a well-known Blackfeet leader and relative of Chief Curly Bear, who adopted Christian Schuster. Sun-Painted Man,Schuster’s second novel, is based on actual diaries, court papers and photographs that originally belonged to his great uncle, Christian F. Schuster. [website]

Clay Scott is the creator and producer of Mountain West Voices, a weekly radio series broadcast on Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and other stations around the Rocky Mountain West. He has worked in print, radio and television, in the U.S. and abroad. He has covered a variety of stories, ranging from war and conflict, to environmental and social issues. He has won many awards for his work, including an Emmy award for his reporting from Kosovo. Clay lives in Helena and edited Witness to History: The Remarkable Untold Story of Virginia city & Nevada City, Montana.

Susan Sherman is a former Chair of the Art Department of Whittier College, a small liberal arts university once attended by President Richard Nixon. She is also the co-creator of one of the most successful television shows for children in the history of the Disney Network. The Little Russian is her first novel. [website]

Sharma Shields is the author of the short story collection Favorite Monster, winner of the Autumn House Fiction Contest. Shields' short fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, Sonora Review and several other literary journals. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor, a Grant for Artist Projects from Artist Trust and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. She received her B.A. in English literature from the University of Washington (2000) and her MFA from the University of Montana (2004). She now lives in Spokane with her husband and young son. As an information specialist for the Spokane County Library District, Shields founded T.W.I.N.E.—Teen Writers of the Inland Empire, a writing club for area youth. [website]

Dan Smetanka has worked in various aspects of the publishing industry for over eighteen years. As an Executive Editor at Ballantine/Random House, Inc., he acquired and published award-winning debut books including The Ice Harvest by Scott Philips, The Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner, Down to a Soundless Sea by Thomas Steinbeck, and Among the Missing by Dan Chaon, a 2001 finalist for the National Book Award. Prior to this, he served as Director of Maria B. Campbell Associates, an international scouting agency that facilitated the placement of American authors into the international marketplace. Daniel also acted as a publishing consultant to both Amblin/Dreamworks and The Kennedy/Marshall Company to identify material appropriate for feature film adaptation. He currently serves as Editor-at-Large for Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. His projects include Heidegger’s Glasses by Thaisa Frank, Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide by Linda Gray Sexton, This River by James Brown, The Adjustment by Scott Phillips, Lightning People by Christopher Bollen, The Silver Lotus by Thomas Steinbeck, and Mistaken by Neil Jordan.

Alex Smith teaches Filmmaking at the University of Texas at Austin and is the Creative Director of UTFI, the University of Texas Film Institute, where he recently produced the feature film Dance with the One. He and his twin brother Andrew wrote, directed and produced Winter in the Blood, on Montana’s Hi-Line, which is based on the world-renowned James Welch novel. The feature is in post-production and stars David Morse, Gary Farmer and Twilight’s Chaske Spencer and Julia Jones. Previously, they wrote and directed the award-winning feature film, The Slaughter Rule, starring Ryan Gosling, Amy Adams, and David Morse, which was set in Montana and premiered at Sundance in 2002. They recently adapted David Quammen’s short story "Walking Out" with Rodrigo Garcia set to direct. They have written scripts for ESPN Films (Youngbloods), Columbia Pictures (The Garden), HBO (Radioactive Boyscout), and Disney (The Faithful). Alex and Andrew also sold a television pilot to FX network, and adapted the graphic novel Son of the Gun by legendary cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Andrew Smith co-wrote and co-directed Winter in the Blood, based on the novel by James Welch, as well as The Slaughter Rule, starring David Morse and Oscar Nominees Ryan Gosling and Amy Adams. With his brother Alex Smith, he also adapted the graphic novel Son of the Gun for Fox Searchlight, as well as penned scripts for Columbia Pictures, HBO, Disney and ESPN Films. The Brothers Smith recently wrote a screenplay based the prize-winning short story "Walking Out" by David Quammen, for acclaimed director Rodrigo Garcia. Andrew is an Associate Professor in the School of Media Arts at the University of Montana. He lives in Missoula with his wife and two daughters.

Bruce Smith is a wildlife biologist and science writer. He earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Wyoming. His first book, Imperfect Pasture, records changes in the ecology of the National Elk Refuge during its 100-year history. Wildlife on the Wind is based on his four years working with the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Indian tribes. At their request, he catalogued the status of the reservation’s diverse wildlife and helped foster a landmark recovery of elk, deer, moose, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn antelope. Honored with a Montana Book Award, his latest book, Where Elk Roam, chronicles his 22 years studying and managing Jackson Hole’s famous migratory elk herd. After leaving the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 2004, Bruce and his wife Diana moved from Wyoming to southwest Montana, where he continues his conservation work and writing. [website]

Peter Stark’s work has appeared in many magazines, including Outside (where he is a long-time correspondent), Smithsonian, and The New Yorker. His books include Driving to Greenland, Ring of Ice, Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance, and At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness, his account as participant on a kayak expedition that paddled an uncharted river in Mozambique. His most recent book, The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map the reader through four of the least populated regions of the United States, exploring the landscape, meeting the few people who live in these “blank spots,” and delving into how these regions shaped our national idea of the importance of wilderness. Stark is now at work on a true adventure tale of John Jacob Astor's epic 1810 expedition to claim the Pacific coast for America, founding a colony at the mouth of the Columbia that would be the seat of a global, Pacific trading empire. Astoria will be published by Ecco in Spring 2014.

Robert Stubblefield teaches undergraduate fiction writing, advanced composition, and serves as faculty advisor for The Oval. He has published fiction and personal essays in Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Left Bank, The Clackamas Literary Review, Cascadia Times, Oregon Humanities, Open Spaces, Oregon Salmon: Essays on the State of the Fish at the Turn of the Millenium, and High Desert Journal among others. Stubblefield’s story “Preserves” is published in Best American Stories of the West.

Amy Sullivan is the president and chief executive officer of the Montana History Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Sullivan ran her own association management and government affairs business. While serving several clients including Montana’s tourism industry, occupational therapists and dieticians, she also managed a multi-million dollar federal voting rights project. Sullivan started her career in journalism in Chicago and Great Falls, Montana, before spending close to eight years working for publicly elected officials including two governors, a congressman and a United States senator. Her educational background is in journalism with a B.S. and M.S. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois.

Dorothea Susag is the author of Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature and the new book Birthright: Born to Poetry. A retired English teacher, she works as an independent education consultant and as an indian education curriculum specialist for the Office of Public Instruction and is a member of the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau.

Mark Sundeen was born in Harbor City, California, in 1970. He is the award-winning author of The Man Who Quit Money, whose nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, the Believer, and elsewhere. His other books are Car Camping and The Making of Toro, and he co-authored North By Northwestern, which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He has taught fiction and nonfiction at the MFA creative writing programs at the University of New Mexico and Southern New Hampshire University. He lives in Montana and Utah. [website]

Toby Thompson is the author of Riding the Rough String: Reflections on the American West and three previous books: Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan’s Minnesota, Saloon and The ‘60s Report. He has written for publications as diverse as Vanity Fair, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Gray’s Sporting Journal, GQ, Men’s Journal, Sports Afield, Playboy, Outside, Big Sky Journal, Western Art & Architecture, The New York Times, The Washington Post and many others. He teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program at Penn State. He lives in Livingston, Montana and Cabin John, Maryland.

David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Minneapolis. He is the author of three novels and a book of criticism. His essays and stories have appeared in Esquire, TriQuarterly, The Washington Post, the LA Times, and Slate.com. Treuer’s first novel, Little, was published in 1995. He received his PhD in anthropology and published his second novel, The Hiawatha, in 1999. His third novel The Translation of Dr Apelles and a book of criticism, Native American Fiction; A User's Manual appeared in 2006. The Translation of Dr Apelles was named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Time Out, and City Pages. His novels have been translated into Norwegian, Finnish, French, and Greek. His new work of nonfiction is Rez Life. [website]

Jodi Varon is the author of the non-fiction Drawing to an Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent Father (U of Missouri Press), a WILLA Award finalist from Women Writing the West. Her non-fiction, fiction, and translations also appear in magazines and journals such as The Colorado Review, The High Plains Literary Review, New Letters, New Millennium Writing, the Northwest Review, Phantom Drift, the Seattle Review, Translation: The Journal of Literary Translation, Western American Literature, the Western Humanities Review, WomenArts Quarterly, and Zone 3, and in the anthologies Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Stories by Women (Crossing Press) and Texas Told ‘Em: Gambling Stories (Ink Brush Press). Also a translator from the Chinese, her translations of the Tang Dynasty poet Li He are collected in The Rock’s Cold Breath: Selected poems of Li He (Ice River Press). A long-standing interpreter of the contributions of Chinese entrepreneurs, herbal doctors and laborers to the establishment of communities in Oregon, she writes for the on-line Oregon Encyclopedia. Her translations of personal letters and documents from the Kam Wah Chung Mercantile, now the Kam Wah Chung Museum and Interpretive Center in John Day, Oregon, appear in Talking on Paper: Oregon Letters and Diaries (Oregon State University Press). Recipient of the William Stafford Fellowship in Non-Fiction from Literary Arts as well as two awards to publishers from Literary Arts for the fine and literary arts magazines basalt and Calapooya, Varon co-directs the low residency MFA at EOU and edits basalt magazine. She and her colleague and spouse David Axelrod raised their family in La Grande and have helped build writing programs at EOU since 1988.. [website]

Jess Walter is the author of five novels and one nonfiction book, a former National Book Award finalist, and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and his essays, short fiction, criticism and journalism have been widely published in Harper's, Esquire, McSweeney's, Byliner, Playboy, ESPN the Magazine, Details and many others. His newest novel, Beautiful Ruins, is a New York Times bestseller. Other recent books include The Financial Lives of the Poets, a Time magazine book of the year, The Zero, finalist for the 2006 National Book Award, the 2007 PEN Center Literary Award and the 2007 LA Times Book Prize and winner of the 2007 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Walter lives with his wife Anne and children in his childhood home of Spokane. [website]

Lois Welch taught comparative literature at UM from 1966-2001, directing the Creative Writing Program for eight years, chairing the English department for three. After marrying James Welch in 1968, theirs was a busy literary life; after his death in 2003, she remains active as his literary executor and working on a memoir about their life together. She lives in Missoula.

Joe Wilkins teaches writing at Waldorf College. He is the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers; two collections of poems, Notes from the Journey Westward, winner of the 17th Annual White Pine Press Prize in Poetry, and Killing the Murnion Dogs; and a chapbook, Ragged Point Road. His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, Southern Review, Missouri Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ecotone, Beloit Poetry Journal, the Sun, Orion, and Slate, among other magazines and literary journals. His work has won numerous awards and honors, including appearances in Best American Magazine Writing 2010 and Best New Poets 2006 and 2009, notable mention in Best American Essays 2008, special mention in Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, the Obsidian Prize for Nonfiction, the Obsidian Prize for Fiction, the Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers, Boulevard‘s Emerging Poets Contest, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. A 2010 National Magazine Award finalist and PEN Center USA Award finalist, he is the recipient of the Richard J. Margolis Award of Blue Mountain Center, which goes to “a promising new journalist or essayist whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom and concern with social justice.” He lives with his wife, son, and daughter in Iowa, where he teaches writing at Waldorf College. [website]

Florence Williams is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slate, Mother Jones, High Country News, O-Oprah, W., Bicycling and numerous other publications. Recently she was a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado's Journalism School. Her work often focuses on the environment, health and science. In 2007-2008, she was a Scripps Fellow at the Center of Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. She has received many awards, including six magazine awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the John Hersey Prize at Yale. Her work has been anthologized in numerous books, including Outside 25, the New Montana Story, How the West Was Warmed and Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. Her first book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, was recently published by W.W. Norton. The manuscript was named a finalist for the 2011 Columbia/Nieman Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. She serves on the board of her favorite nonprofit, High Country News, and lives with her family in the Rocky Mountains. [website]

David Wolman is a contributing editor at Wired. He has also written for such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Outside, Newsweek, Discover, Forbes, New Scientist, and Salon, and his work appeared in Best American Science Writing 2009. A former Fulbright journalism fellow in Japan and graduate of Stanford University's journalism program, he now lives in Portland, Oregon, where he received a 2011 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. His books include A Left-Hand Turn Around the World, Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, and, most recently, The End of Money. [website]

Flora Wong was born in Boston in 1928, and moved to a tiny village in Southern China with her family in 1936 at age seven. During the Communist Revolution, Flora escaped China through an arranged marriage in 1947. She and her husband, Charlie Wong, owned and operated Wing Shing Grocery on Main Street in Helena. In 1968, Charlie died, leaving Flora with five children. She operated the store until 1970. In 1973, she opened the Chinese Kitchen in partnership with George and Irene Wong. In retirement, Flora took up competitive running and swimming. Through the years, she has participated in four National Senior Games and one World Senior Game. Flora was named Montana Big Sky Athlete of the Year in 1999. In 2009, the Helena Sports Hall of Fame named Flora to its list of honored athletes. She has completed the Portland Marathon four times. Her memoir, co-written with her son, Tom Decker, is Long Way Home. Flora has four daughters, Bess, Gloria, Thel, Nancy, and one son, Poy. She is a very proud grandmother and great-grandmother. [website]

Blythe Woolston is the author of Catch and Release, and The Freak Observer, which won the ABC New Voices Pick award, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Award and the 2010 William C. Morris YA Debut Award. She only started writing books because she was desperate for something to read. She is gainfully employed as an indexer of academic nonfiction and lives with her family in Montana. [website]

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