Allen Morris Jones is the author a novel, Last Year’s River, which was chosen as a Barnes and Noble Discover pick; a highly-regarded exploration of the ethics of hunting, A Quiet Place of Violence; and co-editor, with William Kittredge, of The Best of Montana’s Short Fiction. Over the course of his career, he has published numerous articles, essays, short stories, and poems across a wide variety of publications. As an editor, he was overseen the acquisition and development of more than one hundred titles, most recently for his own business, Bangtail Press. Living in Bozeman, Montana, five minutes from the Gallatin River, he is currently Editor in Chief of the highly-regarded magazine Big Sky Journal.