Donna L. Erickson is a consultant on open-space conservation in the Rocky Mountain West and was an associate professor of landscape architecture and planning at the University of Michigan for sixteen years. Erickson has published extensively in design, planning, and conservation … Continue reading Rockin’ R: A Tribute to Writing Groups
Thomas S. Bremer is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He focuses on American religious history, particularly exploring the connections between religion and tourism, religion and nature, and the U.S. national parks. His latest book … Continue reading A Changed Relationship: My Reckoning with Yellowstone
Margaret Crump describes some of the challenges faced while hunting down the man behind the science in her newly-published biography… Continue reading Archives and Attics: Reconstructing the Life of Early Victorian Scientist and Physician James Cowles Prichard
Jim Wilke is a former curator of technology at the Autry Museum of the American West and is a consulting historian on railroad and Western history for numerous organizations. He is the coauthor of Stagecoach! The Romantic Western Vehicle. His … Continue reading From the Desk of Jim Wilke: Frontier Comrades
Pamela Carter Joern is the author of four works of fiction: Toby’s Last Resort, In Reach, The Plain Sense of Things, and The Floor of the Sky, all published by the University of Nebraska Press. She has written six plays … Continue reading From the Desk of Pamela Carter Joern: The Psychic Was Right, After All
Fred Haefele is a writer, teacher, and retired arborist. He is the author of the award-winning motorcycle memoir Rebuilding the Indian (Bison Books, 2005) and the nonfiction collection Extremophilia. Haefele’s work has appeared in Outside, Wired, the New York Times … Continue reading From the Desk of Fred Haefele: The Truth About Vehicular Memoir
Paul Schullery is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than fifty books on history, nature, and outdoor sport, including The Bear Doesn’t Know: Life and Wonder in Bear Country (Bison Books, 2021) and Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness. … Continue reading From the Desk of Paul Schullery: Theodore Roosevelt’s literary trail through the wild country
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez is distinguished professor of Hispanic literature and culture at the Graduate Center and the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY), where she codirects the Cátedra Mario Vargas Llosa. She is co-editor with Carlos Riobó of Talking … Continue reading From the Desk of Raquel Chang-Rodríguez: Remembering Mario Vargas Llosa
Michael Dowdy is a professor of English at Villanova University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Urbilly: Poems and American Poets in the 21st Century: The Poetics of Social Engagement, co-edited with Claudia Rankine. His latest book Tell Me About … Continue reading From the Desk of Michael Dowdy: Ancestors and Anxious Dads
Jim Leeke is an author and editor. His latest book, Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano, is forthcoming in July from University of Nebraska Press. This season Major League Baseball (MLB) is using an Automated Ball-Strike System … Continue reading From the Desk of Jim Leeke: Ron Luciano would thumb ABS out of the game
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