Kent Nelson and Dylan Nelson are father and daughter. They both write fiction and have birded together for the past twenty-eight years. Kent's latest novel, Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still, will be published by Viking in 2003. He lives in Salida, Colorado. Dylan holds a BA in environmental biology from Yale and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Oregon, where she was an editor for Northwest Review. She lives in the Catalina Mountains of southern Arizona.