Craig Childs is the author of fourteen books, including The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild and House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest. He has been a regular commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, Outside, The Sun, and Orion Magazine. Awards he has received include the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, the Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, and, for his body of work, the 2003 Spirit of the West Award. He lives outside of Norwood, Colorado.