Jerry Dennis

Jerry Dennis has earned his living since 1986 writing about nature and the environment for such publications as The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Orion, Wildlife Conservation, and National Geographic Traveler. His books, essays, and articles have won numerous awards and have been frequently anthologized in The Best American Nature Essays and elsewhere. In 1999 the Michigan Library Association presented him with its Michigan Author of the Year Award, the foremost literary award in Michigan. The most recent of his ten books, The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas, won the 2004 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award and the 2004 Great Lakes Culture Award from Michigan State University. Jerry lives with his wife and two sons on Old Mission Peninsula, near Traverse City, Michigan.