Simon Tiedge was born and raised in a small town in Germany, where hunting access is limited, but wild game can be bought in stores and enjoyed in restaurants. Preparing food has been a passion of his for a long time, and only grew more important to him when he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2011. He began searching for ingredients and foods that he had grown up with in Germany and had enjoyed during his travels abroad. When he couldn’t find some things he took matters into his own hands and started baking bread and making cheese, but still the wild game he loved had eluded him. In 2019, with his new hunting dog Shooter out front, he closed the circle to supply his own meat by hunting the public lands of the USA. Today Simon lives in a small town in Minnesota with his wife and 3 hunting dogs and creates wild game meals out of all the memories that fill his freezer.

www.jager-food.com

Erin Kalpin was born and raised in Minnesota. She makes her living training versatile hunting dogs and spends the majority of her Fall season in the grouse woods of northern Minnesota and across the prairies of North Dakota. Her writing is inspired by her time spent outdoors and the deep connection between humans and nature.

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Jordan Wilcher is a third-generation Nevadan. He has chased his childhood dreams in the mountains and rivers around the Western United States with a fly rod or shotgun in hand. He enjoys a bottom-up approach whether it be hand loading for rifles and shotguns, tying flies, or training dogs. He has an endlessly patient wife and a marvelous daughter, who also happens to have a penchant for bird dogs and trout.

Alan Rassmussen is a self-taught artist whose love for the outdoors is portrayed in his artwork. For years he has mostly worked in charcoal and graphite medium and within the last few years he has found a passion for oil painting. He loves to upland bird hunt, to watch his dogs in action and to capture that on canvas is icing on the cake.

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Jennifer Duffield White lives in Montana with a couple of Wirehaired Pointing Griffons. Her work has appeared in publications such as Terrain, Backcountry Journal, Women’s Adventure, Adirondack Life, Narrative Magazine, Witness, and several anthologies.

www.jenniferduffieldwhite.com

Johnathan Sliski is an educator by trade, Appalachian by upbringing, and outdoorsman by sheer dumb luck. Born and raised in East Tennessee, he has long been enthusiastic about the outdoors. Moving to Central Pennsylvania allowed that passion to find a new outlet in hunting and fishing. Johnathan lives with his wife, Emily, and their two Springer Spaniels, Fern and Wild.

Edgar Castillo is a retired law enforcement officer of more than +27 years for a large Kansas City metropolitan agency. He also served in the U.S. Marines. His passion lies in the uplands as he travels across the landscape, wherever the dirt road takes him; to hunt open fields, walk treelines, and bust through plum thickets in search of wild birds in wild places.

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Blaine Peetso lives and writes in the Peace Country of Northwestern Alberta, where he spends most of his time following rivers, chasing dogs and neglecting responsibilities. He is a daydreaming everyman, a working-class aesthete, a discount beer connoisseur with a serious case of Peter Pan Syndrome.

www.theborealist.com

Brad Trumbo is an author, public land manager, Pheasants Forever life member, and passionate upland hunter residing in southeast Washington State. He writes to immortalize the rush of a covey rise, a setter on point, and the landscape that connects us to the past, present, and future.

www.bradtrumbo.com

Clay Beene was born and raised in Northeast Oklahoma where he currently resides. January mallards, April longbeards, May largemouth, July cutthroat, September grouse, and November whitetail keep him in a constant state of anticipation as he lives his life based on the changing of seasons. He continues to study the art of storytelling because stories are the only things that last.

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Erin Woodward is a freelance writer living amongst the wide open Kansas prairies. Erin enjoys the writings of Monte Burke and David McCullough. He can be found trekking the woods in search of his next story.

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Todd Bumgardner hails from ridges and valleys of Pennsylvania where he grew up hunting and fishing. He travels North America with his guns, his rods, his camera, and his pen.

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Michael R Thompson is a knife maker and freelance writer living in Montana’s Bitterroot valley with his wife and a pack of Gordon setters.

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Jenn Walter is a lifelong explorer who strives to find the beauty in life. She is a former archaeologist and current geospatial analyst who embraces the magic of maps. In her heart, she is a writer. She splits her time between Montana and Minnesota, finding more inspiration in the West.

As a Northwest native, Cameron Kirby has always had an affinity for the uninterrupted stretches of wilderness calling to those who seek out the unknown. He enjoys time spent hunting, fishing, caving, sailing, and anything else that can be a vehicle to enjoy the outdoors. Cameron has been married for 17 years and as a family man, he knows it’s his responsibility to pass on his respect and deep admiration for nature to his two boys. In addition to the pursuits of a naturalist, he enjoys vintage cars, firearms, a good book, and an even better scotch.

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Rossano Russo lives in Mono , Ontario , Canada with his wife and Llewellin setter Jessie. He is an electrician by trade with a passion for photography and upland hunting. He’s a self-taught photographer and chef with strong Italian roots that greatly influence his cooking and love for food.

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Ali Senz was born and raised in Golden, Colorado where she grew up exploring the mountains on two feet and two wheels. In the last five years she has dived headfirst into the world of bird dogs, upland hunting, and fishing, allowing her to spend even more time in the wild. She lives with her husband, Ben, and their two bird dogs, Juniper the German Wirehaired Pointer and Basil the Bracco Italiano.

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Two decades ago, Frans Diepstraten traded the flatlands of his native The Netherlands for the mountains and plains of Alberta, Canada. He works hard at minimizing responsibilities, so he can spend more time outdoors, be it hunting, backpacking or training for endurance events. He dreams of prolonged road trips to show his dog new country and new birds, and spending the summers running ridges in the high country. For a while Frans was very serious at pretending to be a writer, resulting in some thirty published articles in six countries, including two in Sports Afield. These days he mostly writes for his blog, and his own enjoyment.

www.crooked-arrow.com