Rick Bass
<DIV><B>Rick Bass</B>, the author of thirty books, won the Story Prize for his collection <I>For a Little While</I> and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for his memoir <I>Why I Came West</I>. His work, which has appeared in <I>The New Yorker</I>, <I>The Atlantic</I>, <I>Esquire</I>, and <I>The Paris Review</I>, among many other publications, and has been anthologized numerous times in <I>The Best American Short Stories</I>. <br><br> He has also won multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes, as well as NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Bass lives in Montana's Yaak Valley, where he is a founding board member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council.</DIV>