Maximilian Werner (M.F.A., Arizona State University) has been teaching at the university level for over twenty years and is currently an Associate Professor (lecturer) in the Writing and Rhetoric Studies Department at the University of Utah, where he teaches Intermediate Writing, Environmental Writing, and Writing about War.  He is an award-winning teacher and author of seven books, Black River Dreams, a collection of literary fly fishing essays; the novel Crooked Creek; the memoir Gravity Hill, the memoir/natural history Evolved: Chronicles of the Pleistocene Mind, a second essay collection The Bone Pile: Essays on Nature and Culture, a poetry collection titled Cold Blessings, and another work of nonfiction Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns--Death and Coexistence in the American West. Mr. Werner's creative and scholarly work has appeared in several journals and magazines, including The Robert Frost Review, Inside Higher Education, Times Higher Education, Counterpunch, Written River: A Journal of Ecopoetics, Matter Journal: Edward Abbey Edition, Bright Lights Film Journal, The North American Review, ISLE, Weber Studies, Fly Rod and Reel, and Columbia.