Tom Wolf is the author of four non-fiction books, including "Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains." He is a native Coloradoan, a cradle Catholic, an Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict, and a member of St. Margaret Mary Roman Catholic Parish in Cortez, Colorado. He has a Ph.D. in English & American Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters degree in Forestry from Colorado State University. He has lived and worked for decades in the traditional Catholic communities of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. During the Vietnam War, he was a Roman Catholic Conscientious Objector.