Emilio DeGrazia, from Winona, is a writer, teacher, and editor. In 1977 he founded Great River Review, now with the University of Minnesota. His first short story collection, Enemy Country, was followed by a novel, Billy Brazil. Then came more stories, Seventeen Grams of Soul, the novel A Canticle for Bread and Stones, essay collections Burying the Tree and Eye Shadow, a memoir Walking on Air in a Field of Greens, and poetry Seasonings and What Trees Know. He has been a contest judge for the Society of Midland Authors and other groups. He and his wife Monica have co-edited three anthologies for Nodin Press, and he has served two terms as Winona’s Poet Laureate.