Maximilian Werner lives in Salt Lake City and teaches writing at the University

of Utah.  His poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, and interviews have

appeared in several journals and magazines, including Matter Journal: Edward

Abbey Edition, The North American Review, Yale Anglers' Journal, ISLE, Weber

Studies, Fly Rod and Reel, Puerto del Sol, and Columbia.  He is also an Academy

of American Poets prize winner.  Mr. Werner's book Black River Dreams won the

2008 Utah Arts Council's Original Writing Competition for Nonfiction: Book and

was published in January by Barclay Creek Press.