CHARLES FINN 

Charles Finn is the editor of High Desert Journal and author of Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters (OSU Press 2012). His essays and poetry have appeared in a wide variety of journals, anthologies, newspapers and consumer magazines, including The Sun, Northern Lights, Wild Earth, Silk Road, Open Spaces, High Country News, Writers on the Range, Big Sky Journal, Montana Quarterly, Montana Magazine and many others.Before joining the High Desert Journal, Charles taught English as a foreign language for three years in Hiroshima, Japan, hid out in the woods of British Columbia, Canada, for ten, spent five years in Montana, much of it living in a 8 x 12 cabin of his own making with no running water or electricity, and wrote. A self-taught woodworker and proponent of “living little” he began, A Room of One's Own, building “microhomes,” one-room wood cabins constructed entirely out of reclaimed lumber and materials he salvaged from taking down old barns and buildings. Originally from Vermont he now lives in Missoula, MT with his wife, Joyce Mphande-Finn, and their two cats, Pushkin and Lutsa.

A website of his writing is: http://finncharles.wix.com/charlesfinnwriting

A website of his woodworking and cabin business is: http://finncharles.wix.com/a-room-of-ones-own