I am the former editor of the literary and fine art magazine High Desert Journal, author of the nonfiction collection, Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters, and two poetry collections, On a Benediction of Wind: Poems and Photographs from the American West, winner of the 2022 Montana Book Award, and A Mountain’s Idea of Time, Chatwin Books 2025.

I also co-editor of the textbook- anthology The Art of Revising Poetry: 21 U.S. Poets on Their Drafts, Craft, and Process, as well as co-editor of the poetry anthology, We Are All God’s Poems. I live in Havre, MT, with my wife Joyce Mphande-Finn and our two cats, Tija and Rilke.