Thomas Rain Crowe is an internationally-published and recognized author, editor and translator of more than thirty books, including the multi-award winning nonfiction nature memoir Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (2005); The End of Eden: Writings of an Environmental Activist (2008); an internationally acclaimed anthology of contemporary Celtic language poets entitled Writing the Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (The New Celtic Poetry) and his collection of poetry The Laugharne Poems written at the Dylan Thomas boathouse in Laugharne, Wales in 1993 and 1995. He has translated two volumes of the Sufi poet Hafiz-In Wineseller's Street (Iran Books) and Drunk On the Wine of the Beloved (Shambhala Press). He has belonged to and worked with several environmental organizations, has been an editor of major literary and cultural journals and anthologies and is founder and publisher of New Native Press (www.newnativepress.org). He lived in San Francisco during the 1970s working alongside all the people cited in his most recent book Starting From San Francisco: Beats, Baby Beats & The 1970s San Francisco Renaissance and was an original member of the group responsible for the resurrection of Beatitude magazine during those years as well as working with various bioregional groups in northern California. He is a longtime resident of the Southern Appalachians and lives in the Tuckasegee watershed and the "Little Canada" community of Jackson County in western North Carolina, USA. His archives are collected and housed at the Special Collections Library at Duke University.