Born in Bridgeport, Conn., nature writer Bill Sherwonit has called Anchorage home since 1982. He has contributed to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, journals and anthropologies and is the author of more than a dozen books. His most recent books include Living with Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey and Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness. Bill has begun work on a collection of essays titled Animal Stories: Encounters with Alaska's Wildlife.