Bill Yake is a poet, naturalist, photographer, traveler, and occasional essayist living with his wife, Jeannette, on the verge of a ravine carved by a small chum salmon creek. His work has been published quite widely, especially in books, magazines, and anthologies serving the environmental and literary communities — from Orion to Poetry, from Wilderness to Terrain.org, from Rattle to ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Poems have also been featured on NPR.