KENT NELSON

Kent Nelson has published four novels and four collections of short fiction, together with over 100 short stories. His novel LAND THAT MOVES, LAND THAT STANDS STILL, Viking Penguin, won the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Award in fiction for 2004, and his novel, LANGUAGE IN THE BLOOD, won the Edward Abbey Prize for Ecofiction. Many of his stories have been included in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart, O. Henry, and other anthologies. He has taught in many university writing programs, including those in Alabama, Tennessee, Wyoming, Montana, Rice, and Texas, and he will be Tennessee Williams Fellow at the University of the South in 2004-05. He is a graduate of Yale University and is an avid birder with a list of 720 North American life birds). He is also a former nationally ranked squash player, and in 1997 and 2001 he ran the Pikes Peak Marathon (26.3 miles, 7,814 feet). He lives in Salida, Colorado.