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Jon Billman has worked as a wildland firefighter and seventh-grade teacher, and is now at work on a novel. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, and The Missouri Review, among other publications. He lives in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
Jon Billman is a brilliant young writer with an astonishing range. These fresh and vivid stories are gritty, full of energy and humor, a sharp pleasure to read. Billman's feeling for rural backcountry, his knowledge of wildfire, baseball, bad weather and treacherous human hearts, mark him as an important emerging writer. --Annie Proulx I think it's the best collection of stories to come out of the American West in recent times. Jon Billman is very gifted--I look forward eagerly to what he does next. --Larry McMurtry An auspicious debut collection . . .this dream-breaking Wyoming proves remarkably rich ground for Billman, who possesses an eye for the irony and humor that sometimes flourish precisely because little else can. --The New York Times Book Review The natural heir to flinty-eyed writers like McMurtry, Billman is lethally witty and wonderfully perverse. --OUTSIDE magazine An excellent debut collection . . . strikingly vivid. There are no sepia tones here. The stories pulse with color, immediacy, and humor . . . even when love fails, the characters enjoy a kind of exquisite loneliness, as they extend the boundaries of an inner landscape. --The Wall Street Journal
