Dr. Mikel Vause holds a Ph.D. from Bowling Green University and is a Full Professor of English at Weber State University. He is author of numerous articles, poems, and short stories that have appeared in books, magazines and journals like American Nature Writers, Climbing, The Climbing Art, The Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Weber Studies, Popular Culture Review, The Trumpeter, Utah Foreign Language Review, Wasatch Review International, Encyclia, The Junction, Word Works, The Himalayan Journal, Clover: A Literary Rag, Journal of Wilderness Medicine, and rough draft, The Himalayan Journal, The John Muir News Letter; and The Journal of the World Wilderness Congress. He is also the author… of a collection of essays On Mountains and Mountaineers and is the editor of Rock and Roses vols. I and II; Wilderness Tapestry; Peering over the Edge and The Peregrine Reader. He has completed a collection of poems under the title, I Knew It Would Come to This. Green Cat Press released his collection of poems At the Edge of Things; and Fusion Images and Productions produced Looking for the Old Crown and Other Poems. A poem entitled "We Were There" is included in the poetry anthology Red Thread Gold Thread ; Gower Village" in The Parish Magazine of Llangennith, Llanmadoc, & Cheriton Excelsior, Wales, UK.