David James Duncan is the author of the novels The River Why and TheBrothers K, the story and memoir collections River Teeth, My Story as Told by Water, and God Laugh & Plays, and two fast-response activist books,The Heart of the Monster (with Rick Bass) and Citizen’s Dissent (with Wendell Berry), which won the American Library Association’s 2004 Award for the Preservation of Intellectual Freedom. David’s work has received three Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards, a Lannan fellowship, the Western States Book Award for nonfiction, a National Book Award nomination, and has appeared in scores of magazines and forty plus anthologies including The Pushcart Prizes, Best American Essays, Best American Sports Writing, Best American Spiritual Writing, and, by some kind of editorial mischief perpetrated by his late literary brother, Brian Doyle, Best American Catholic Writing.