An award-winning humorist and high desert writer, Michael Branch is Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has authored more than 300 essays and reviews, and 10 books, including his Nevada trilogy: Raising Wild, Rants from the Hill, and How to Cuss in Western. Mike’s recent book, On the Trail of the Jackalope, has been called “an entertaining and enlightening road trip to the heart of an American legend.” Mike lives with his wife and daughters in the high desert of northwestern Nevada. There he writes, plays harmonica, curses at baseball on the radio, and walks more than 1,000 miles each year (with Huckleberry the dog) in the remote hills, canyons, arroyos, and playas.
