Author Kenny Salwey is a woodsman who has spent his life in the backwaters of the Mississippi River. He is the author of The Last River Rat and Kenny Salweys Tales of a River Rat and the narrator of the award-winning documentary Mississippi: Tales of the Last River Rat. A popular nature speaker since 1988, Kenny travels the upper Midwest talking to groups. Kenny and his wife, Mary Kay, live outside Alma, Wisconsin.