Brad Tyer has paddled and/or oared in Montana, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Alaska, North Carolina, Idaho, Michigan and his home state of Texas. He likes Montana’s water best, but he likes it all. He and two 14-year-old mutts, Pancho and Ladybird, currently live outside of Anaconda, where they’re paddling the Big Hole, taking loads of pictures and writing a book.
A wilderness guide and environmental journalist, Josh Mahan is the co-author of Tree Spiker, published by St. Martin’s Press, and editor of the alternative news sites Lowbagger.org and Downtheriver.org. While reporting for the latter he was shot at, but not due to his writing style, he says. Mahan has also served time at a handful of western Montana newspapers.
Megan McNamer’s essays have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Salon and Islands, and in recent years the Cut Bank, Mont., native has been a fiction finalist with Writers at Work, Glimmer Train and New Millennium. She is the administrative director of the Missoula Writing Collaborative, a creative writing program for schools, and also writes film, theater and art reviews. McNamer and her sister Kate will read your stuff, if you contact them at www.readyourstuff.com.
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After covering professional and collegiate sports in Washington, D.C., for AOL and the Associated Press, Skylar Browning moved to Missoula and attempted to learn a whole new sporting culture. His first purchase was a mountain bike. He and his wife, Nicole, now have two young children, one of whom already laps her father on weekend pedals through the neighborhood. When he’s not chasing after his kids, Browning edits the Missoula Independent.
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