Stephen Grace studied novel writing with Stratis Haviaras, founding editor of Harvard Review, while caretaking a house where the poet T.S. Eliot lived. After his first novel was published, Grace moved to a trailer park in Laramie, Wyoming, in the wake of the Matthew Shepard murder, to work with at-risk youth and research a novel. To publish a book about the historical cartography of Colorado, he collaborated with Library of Congress curators and with Vincent Virga, called "America's foremost picture editor." To research a narrative nonfiction book about China he sought out experiences as diverse as photographing skyscrapers in Shanghai and trail running in Tibet. To write DAM NATION: HOW WATER SHAPED THE WEST AND WILL DETERMINE ITS FUTURE, a Colorado Book Award finalist, he followed rivers west of the 100th meridian and charted currents throughout the region's history. Grace served as a consultant for the film DamNation, which has won numerous national and international awards. He is an associate producer and the screenwriter for THE GREAT DIVIDE, a film about the past, present, and future of Colorado water. He is also the author of THE GREAT DIVIDE, a companion book to the film. While writing GROW: STORIES FROM THE URBAN FOOD MOVEMENT, he worked on a repurposed garbage truck in the alleyways of Denver and volunteered on a farm in Uganda.