Rick Bass is a wilderness advocate, activist, and the author of more than thirty books. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lyndhurst Foundation, the Montana Arts Council, and others. His stories, articles, and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Narrative, Men’s Journal, Esquire, GQ, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Tin House, Zoetrope, Orion, and numerous other periodicals and book anthologies. He lives in western Montana.