Jarold Ramsey is professor Emeritus of English at the University of Rochester and the recipient of numerous prizes and honors. He is the author of Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country and Reading the Fire: Essays in the Traditional Indian Literatures of America (both University of Washington Press), and co-editor of The Stories We Tell: An Anthology of Oregon Folk Literature (OSU Press). In 2000, he moved back to the family ranch, north of Madras, Oregon.