Steve Sherwood grew up along the Rampart Range in the Colorado Rockies, worked as a trash collector in Rocky Mountain National Park during his college years, and has worked as a writer and teacher in Wyoming, Montana, and Texas. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in such journals as the TALKING RIVER REVIEW, THE CLEARING HOUSE, RED ROCK REVIEW, and NORTHERN LIGHTS. In April 2014, Angelina River Press published a collection of his short fiction and creative nonfiction titled FIELD GUIDE: ESSAYS AND STORIES. His first novel, HARDWATER, set in a Wyoming uranium-mining town, won the 2003 George Garrett Fiction Prize and was published by the Texas Review Press in 2005. In fall 2014, the Texas Review Press will publish his latest novel, NO ASYLUM. In it, the former chief ranger of Rocky Mountain National Park, banished to a tiny national historical site in western Kansas after shooting two moose poachers, must solve a fifteen-year-old murder case. In addition to fiction and creative nonfiction,Sherwood has published a number of essays about tutoring and teaching writing. His academic books include the ST. MARTIN'S SOURCEBOOK FOR WRITING TUTORS, now in its fourth edition, and WRITING CENTERS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY(1996, Greenwood Press). He earned a doctorate in rhetoric and composition from Texas Christian University in 2004 and is the director of TCU's William L. Adams Center for Writing.