Mark Hummel's fiction, poetry, and essays have regularly appeared in a variety of literary journals for more than twenty years including such publications as The Bloomsbury Review, Dogwood, Fugue, Talking River Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, and Zone 3. He is author of the novel In the Chameleon's Shadow. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in English, which included study under the mentorship of John Edgar Wideman, Robert Roripaugh, and Donald Murray, Hummel taught fiction, creative nonfiction, and environmental studies at the University of Northern Colorado for nearly two...