Sean Prentiss is the award-winning author of Finding Abbey: the Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, which won the National Outdoor Book Award, Utah Book Award, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and the author of Crosscut: Poems. He is also the co-writer of Environmental and Nature Writing. He used to be a trail crew leader and wilderness guide in the Pacific Northwest and Desert Southwest. He now is associate professor at Norwich University. He has hiked the Colorado Trail and Long Trail. He and his family live on a small lake in northern Vermont not far from Bald Mountain Meadow.