Robert Finch is the author of seven books, most recently The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore (Counterpoint, 2007). He is coeditor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing and a faculty member in creative nonfiction at Spalding University in Louisville. Finch also broadcasts a weekly radio commentary for WCAI (a National Public Radio affiliate in Woods Hole, Massachusetts). He lives on Cape Cod and in Newfoundland.