William deBuys is the author of ten books, most recently including The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss. He has been a Kluge Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress (2018), a Guggenheim Fellow (2008-2009), and a Lyndhurst Fellow (1986-1988). He lives on the farm he has tended since 1976 in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico.