Walter Crabtree has been writing for the last twenty-five years. His work includes novels, short stories, poetry, and an autobiographical work. He studied creative writing and poetry at UCI and Saddleback Community College. Michael Chabon was one of his instructors. Mr. Crabtree moved to Tennessee in 1994 from Laguna California after he retired. He has a small ranch and lives next to Fall Creek Falls State Park on the Cumberland Plateau. He has a daughter in McLean, Virginia, and a son in Cookeville, Tennessee. Early in his career, he worked for a year in Alberta, and British Colombia, Canada. Next, as a well site Geologist in Petroleum Exploration his work took him to most of South America, the South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, plus short stints in other countries. Mr. Crabtree is a member of the Chattanooga Writer’s Guild and a past member of the Wednesday Writer’s Group. Some of the major influences on his work are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, Flannery O’Conner