Hively, Zach: - Zach Hively lives near Abiquiu, New Mexico. His second collection, Desert Apocrypha, received the Reading the West Book Award for poetry. His Fool's Gold humor column has earned three first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists' Top of the Rockies awards, and he has won a Maxwell Medallion from the Dog Writers' Association of America. He is also the author of Wild Expectations, with photography by Magdalena Lily McCarson. The two write music and perform together as the alt-folk duo Oxygen on Embers. You can read selections and learn more at zachhively.com.