Zach Hively lives near Abiquiu, New Mexico. He is the author of Owl Poems and Desert Apocrypha, which received the Reading the West Book Award for poetry, in addition to Wild Expectations. His Fool's Gold humor column has earned three first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists' Top of the Rockies awards, and he has won a Maxwell Medallion from the Dog Writers' Association of America. He writes music and performs with Magdalena Lily McCarson as the alt-folk duo Oxygen on Embers.
