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Jon Billman

Biography

Jon Billman

Jon Billman is a former wildland firefighter and high school teacher. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Eastern Washington University. He’s the author of the story collection WHEN WE WERE WOLVES (Random House, 1999). Billman is a regular contributor to Outside, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review and Zoetrope: All-Story. He teaches fiction and journalism at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula, where he lives with his family in a log cabin along the Chocolay River.

Jon Billman

Books by Jon Billman

The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wilderness
by Jon Billman - Nature, Nonfiction, True Crime

These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations are the hardest on loved ones left behind. The cases that are an embarrassment for park superintendents, rangers and law enforcement charged with Search & Rescue. The ones that baffle the volunteers who comb the mountains, woods and badlands. The stories that should give you pause every time you venture outdoors.