William Kittredge taught for the University of Montana for 29 years, where he was Regents Professor of English and Creative Writing. Kittredge has received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, two NEA Fellowships, two Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards, and the Montana Governor's Award for the Arts. Kittredge has published essays and articles in over fifty magazines, including Atlantic, Harper's, Esquire, Time, Newsweek, Outside, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. His books include two collections of short fiction, The Van Gogh Fields and Other Stories (1979) and We Are Not In This Together (1984), two collections of essays, Owning It All (1987) and Who Owns the West (1996), and a memoir Hole in the Sky (1992). His novel Run With Horses, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2005. A book-length essay on life along the 100 th meridian, called American Heartline, is forthcoming form Texas Tech University Press in 2006.