Charles Finn is the former editor of the literary and fine arts magazine High Desert Journal and author of Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters, On a Benediction of Wind: Poems and Photographs from the American West and A Mountain's Idea of Time: Poems. His essays, poems, and nonfiction have been published in a wide variety of journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies across the United States. Also a wood artist, he is owner of FINNFURNITURE & ART and lives in Potomac, MT, with his two cats, Rilke and Tija.