A bioregional consideration of writings from America's desert places

Tom Lynch is associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he teaches ecocriticism and place-conscious literature. Currently co-editing a collection of writings about Loren Eiseley and a collection of bioregional literary criticism, he is also engaged in a comparative study of the literature of the American West and the Australian Outback from ecocritical and postcolonial perspectives.Scott Slovic, founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, is professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, and is author, editor, or co-editor of fifteen books. He lives in Reno, Nevada.