James T. Harrison

Known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. His work appeared in many leading publications, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Book Review. He published several collections of novellas, two of which were eventually turned into films: Revenge (1990) and Legends of the Fall (1994). Much of his writing depicts sparsely populated regions of North America with many stories set in places such as Nebraska's Sand Hills, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Montana's mountains, and along the Arizona-Mexico border. Known for his fiction, he considers himself first and foremost a poet. His connection to rural landscapes is evident in his free-verse, imagistic poetry, which often explores human and animal drives set against an unforgiving natural world.