David James Duncan is the author of My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Birdwatching, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark; The River Why; The Brothers K; and River Teeth. Jane Hirshfield said of his work, “His essays leap and bound through the natural world as dazzling as do his beloved trout, and as wildly. His fidelities are to beauty, to justice, and to the ways our actions and thoughts can honor a larger life.” Mr. Duncan lives with his family on a Montana trout stream.