Sean Prentiss is the award-winning author of Finding Abbey: a Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, a memoir about Edward Abbey and the search for home. Prentiss is also the series editor for the Bloomsbury Publishing Writers Guide Series. Two textbooks, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Craft Guide and Anthology and Advanced Creative Nonfiction (forthcoming 2020), are written by Prentiss. Prentiss is also the co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction and the co-editor of the forthcoming The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction. He is also the author of the forthcoming Crosscut: A Trail Building Memoir in Poems.