Author of an acclaimed novel, "Last Year's River" (Houghton Mifflin), a highly influential consideration of the ethics of hunting, "A Quiet Place of Violence," and co-editor, with William Kittredge, of "The Best of Montana’s Short Fiction," Allen Morris Jones (1970 - ) is also the author of more than one hundred published short stories, articles, essays, and poems. During his twenty-year career in publishing, he has worked as acquisitions editor for the Lyons Press and as publisher of his own small press, Bangtail Press. He has appeared on the Jim Lehrer NewsHour as a guest essayist, lectured to the Outdoor Writer’s Association of America, and seen rave reviews of his work appear on “The Today Show” and in the "LA Times," "People" magazine, "Publisher’s Weekly," "Booklist," and many others. Currently editor of the magazine "Big Sky Journal," Jones lives in Montana with his wife and young son.