Scotte Burns is an award-winning teacher, speaker, writer, and explorer. His work has been featured in OnStage Magazine, Nth Degree SciFi/Fantasy, The GNU Literary Magazine, The Lahian, the Rocky Mountain News, Westword, and other publications. He has produced manuscripts for two nonfiction books including Stealing Home, a book on at-home parenting for men, and The Forever Ending Story: A History of the End of Time. He is a retired English/Literature and Earth science teacher with a B.A. in English and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. In addition to teaching and writing, Scotte is a songwriter and musician/vocalist and has worked as a Renaissance Festival swordsman, a floral supply wholesaler, a traffic signal repairman, truck driver and landscape foreman. At home in the Black Hills of South Dakota, he leads tours and tells stories of Deadwood history and the life of Wild Bill Hickok. He loves dogs and some other people's cats.