His nonfiction includes articles published in more than 80 magazines including SMITHSONIAN, OUTSIDE, ORION NATURE QUARTERLY, and NORTHWEST LIVING. His nonfiction book, K. Ross Toole's Montana, was a companion to a video series on the late Hammond Professor of History at the University of Montana and won the Montana Institute of the Arts' book-of-the-year award in 1986.

In recent years fiction has stolen his heart. His 1995 screenplay, "The Great Montana Road Race," was a semifinalist (one of 204 in 2,800 entries) in the Writer's Network screenplay contest. In 1996 he completed "Wild Child," a contemporary coming-of-age drama based on a retelling of the feral child myths. He is currently collaborating on a romantic comedy with another Missoula writer, Don Warden.

Over the years, he has earned his living as a public information coordinator for St. Patrick Hospital, a counselor in an adolescent treatment center, a laborer in a grain mill, a treeplanter, a logger, and a furniture mover for Sears. In 1995, he created his own company, MONTANA 2000, a public relations and grant-writing firm, whose clients include Camp Mak-A-Dream, the Town of Virginia City, the Twin Bridges Historical Association, the International Wildlife Film Festival, and the Montana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, among others.For two years, 1995-97, he was the historic preservation officer for Virginia City, Montana.

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