James C. Work

Hometown: Estes Park, Colorado

Present home: Fort Collins, Colorado

Education: BA, MA English literature; PhD, Victorian Poetry.

Career: Professor Emeritus CSU (Western literature, nature writing, creative non-fiction)

Offices: President, Western Literature Association; Exec. Director, Colorado Seminars in Literature; Director, Rocky Mountain MLA.

Awards: CSL Book of the Year (PROSE AND POETRY OF THE AMERICAN WEST); Frank Waters Society Literary Achievement Award ("The Lion at the Well"). Western Literature Association Wylder Award for Distinguished Service.

Activities: canoeing, hiking, camping, fly fishing

Interests: Western American history; archetypal mythology; etymology and rhetoric.

Most satisfactory accomplishments to date:

(1)Discovering how to apply archetypal Arthurian legends to new fiction set in the American West, i.e. bringing Gawain and Lancelot to Wyoming;

(2)Selling a collection of amusing memoirs to an academic press--the Utah memoir "Don't Shoot the Gentile" is scheduled for September 2011 publication.

(3)Being modern-minded enough to have published on Kindle as well as writing articles for an on-line magazine, NewWest.Org