Fields, Leslie Leyland

Since 1978, Leslie Leyland Fields has followed the schools of ready-to-spawn fish out to a remote island where she and her husband fish commercially for salmon. With five children, ranging in ages from thirteen to six months, the island now has a population of seven.

Her essays have appeared in "The Atlantic, Orion, The Christian Science Monitor, Experiencing Nature: A Creative Nonfiction Reader, The Best of Oregon Quarterly, " and others. She is the recent winner of the Virginia Faulkner award for excellence in writing. She is the author of "Out on the Deep Blue".