John T. Price is a Professor and current Jefferis Endowed Chair of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He earned his M.F.A. in Nonfiction Writing and Ph.D. in English at the University of Iowa, and is the author of two literary memoirs: Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands (U. of Nebraska Press, 2004) and Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships (2008, Da Capo Press). A recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, his autobiographical nonfiction has appeared in numerous national journals, magazines and anthologies, including Orion, the Christian Science Monitor, Creative Nonfiction, and the annual awards anthology, Best Spiritual Writing. He teaches literature and creative nonfiction writing courses at UNO, including Autobiography, Modern Familiar Essay, and Travel Writing, and in 2006, was given an Alumni Oustanding Teaching Award. He is also co-director of UNO's graduate certificate in Advanced Writing.