WILLIAM DEBUYS is the author of ten books, including The Last Unicorn, one of Christian Science Monitor's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015; River of Traps, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008); A Great Aridness; and The Trail to Kanjiroba. In 2008-2009 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in New Mexico.