Lee C. Gerhard

Lee Gerhard is a well-known geologist, adventurer, outdoorsman, and fanatic fly fisherman. Raised on a dairy farm in upstate New York, he learned to love the natural world and solitude. He has avoided cities for most of his career. His professional career included being tenured in four different academic settings, working for three oil companies, and being state geologist of two states. His forte is short stories and he focuses on the natural world. Preceding non-technical books are “Of Cowboys and Carpenters and Rifles and Rods” and “Rocks in My Pocket and Mud on My Boots,” both collections of short stories. He writes regularly for one outdoor magazine and for regional and local magazines. “The Meeker Conspiracies” is his first novel. Originally a farm kid from upstate New York, he and his family have always lived west of the Mississippi River. He has walked on every continent, dipped his toes into every ocean, and been as close to space as a normal citizen can be. As for being a geologist, he says “I’ve never had to work for a living, my career has been filled with fascinating and interesting challenges.”

Lee was a prolific writer of technical geologic and climate change scientific literature before starting to write outdoor stories and fiction. He now writes to amuse himself with the hope that others might also enjoy his work.