Kent Nelson

Kent Nelson is the author of four novels and six short story collections. His work has earned wide acclaim, including the Colorado Book Award and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still, the Edward Abbey Prize for Ecofiction for Language in the Blood, and the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize for The Spirit Bird. His fiction, often shaped by place and environmental and social themes, has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, …