benjamin alva polley
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Trails leader, writer, wildlife biologist, fire lookout |
| Location | MIssoula, Montana, United States |
| Introduction | I have a master's degree in Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Journalism from the University of Montana Missoula. I have an undergraduate degree is in Cultural Anthropology and has a minor in Wilderness Studies. His work has been published in Outside, Popular Science, Field & Stream, Esquire, Sierra, Mountain, Gray's Sporting Journal, Earth Island, and in other publications. My website is www.benjaminpolley.com/stories |
| Interests | Nature, literature, poetry, traveling, food, dancing, sex and definitely rock and roll |
| Favorite movies | "Inner World, Outer World, "I Am," "Harold and Maude", "The Red Violin", "Waking Life", "Baraka", "Everything is Illuminated", "Legends of the Fall", "The Notebook", "At Play in the Fields of the Lord", "The Mission", "American History X", "Freedom Writers" |
| Favorite music | Greg Brown, Chris Smither, Andrew Bird, Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Blackalicious, Tribe called Quest, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake |
| Favorite books | "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner, "My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard, "Wolf: A False Memoir" and "Dalva" by Jim Harrison, "House of Spirits" by Isabel Allende, "Grapes of Wrath","Winter of Our Discontent" and "East of Eden" and "Travels with Charlie" by John Steinbeck, "Skinny Legs and All" "Jitterbug Perfume", "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates", by Tom Robbins, "Love in a Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and "The Golden Spruce" by John Valliant, "Outliers", Malcolm Gladwell. |