Dale Pendell lives in the Sierra foothills of Northern California. He is founder and editor of Kuksu: A Journal of Backcountry Writing. His books include Pharmako/ Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path, The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse, WALKING WITH NOBBY: CONVERSATIONS WITH NORMAN O. BROWN (Mercury HousE, 2007), and SALTING THE BOUNDARIES (New Native Press, 2014). His poems have appeared in Rattling Wall, the West Marin Review, House Organ, Northwind Poets Anthology, the Journal of Interdimensional Poetry, Erowid Extracts, Open to All (What the Library Means to Me), Der Sanitate...