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Jerry Dennis's many books—including The Living Great Lakes, The Windward Shore, and, most recently, Up North in Michigan: A Portrait of Place in Four Seasons—have been widely translated and have won numerous awards. His essays, stories, and poems have appeared in more than a hundred magazines and journals across the U.S. and abroad. He lives near Traverse City in northwest lower Michigan.