We're happy to have Sandra Alcosser and Pete Fromm
here as our guest writers.
Sandra and Pete are the winners of the New Writers--
New Voices of the West, Arizona, Montana exchange.
The first reader tonight will be Pete Fromm.
Pete comes to us from Great Falls, Montana.
He's in addition to being a writer,
he's a professional outdoorsman, and he's a contributing editor
to Gray's Sporting Journal.
He sold over 25 stories to outdoor magazines
and literary quarterlies, and his book of stories The Tall
Uncut came out in the spring.
The stories arise in a Western landscape,
but as Pete has said, they might be
about hunting or fishing or the wilderness,
but they're really not about that at all.
"I write less about the experience
than I do about the people passing through the stories.
I break the stereotypes.
I write about people trying to communicate."
Pete has two books coming out in 1993.
Monkey Tag and a nonfiction account of seven months
spent in the wilderness.
That book is tentatively titled Out From Paradise,
and one chapter of the book was the winner of the Sierra Club's
nature writing award.
Please help me welcome him here today, Pete Fromm.