Dwight Holing lives and writes in California. His short stories and essays have appeared in literary journals, including Arts & Letters, Cold Mountain Review, Cutthroat, Phoebe, and Oregon Quarterly. He is the author of the popular Jack McCoul Capers mystery series. He has written articles for Audubon, Discover, and Outside, among others, and his nonfiction books have been published by Macmillan, Random House, Time-Life, and University of California Press.