Montana Book Festival 2017

Nick Neely’s first book of essays, Coast Range: A Collection from the Pacific Edge (Counterpoint), was a finalist for the 2017 John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing and CLMP’s Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction. He is the recipient of a PEN Northwest Boyden Wilderness... Read More →

John Clayton is the author of Wonderlandscape: Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Icon, published by Pegasus Books in August. His previous books include Stories from Montana’s Enduring Frontier and The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart, which was... Read More →

Jack Clinton lives in Red Lodge, Montana, and works as a Spanish teacher. Clinton spent most of his adult life in Wyoming, working as kitchen help, laborer, carpenter, and mountain guide. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degree in Spanish at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie... Read More →

Bernard Quetchenbach’s latest books are Accidental Gravity, an essay collection (Oregon State University Press) and a poetry collection, The Hermit’s Place (Wild Leaf Press). He has published poetry, articles, and essays in various periodicals and anthologies, including Poems... Read More →

Maya Jewell Zeller is the author of Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts, a collaboration with visual artist Carrie DeBacker (Entre Rios Books, Fall 2017), Yesterday, the Bees (Floating Bridge Press, 2015), and Rust Fish (Lost Horse Press, 2011). Maya serves as Assistant Professor... Read More →