Meet The Authors

Jeff Lockwood

Jeff Lockwood earned a B.S. in biology from New Mexico Tech and a Ph.D. in entomology from Louisiana State University. Originally hired as an Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University of Wyoming, he metamorphosed into a Professor of Natural Sciences & Humanities and transferred to the department of philosophy and in the MFA program in creative writing. He teaches nature and spiritual/religious writing, environmental ethics, and philosophy of ecology. His writings have been honored with a Pushcart Prize and a John Burroughs Award. Jeff had an essay selected for and included in Best American Science and Nature Writing.

Jeff has authored the following books: Grasshopper Dreaming: Reflections on killing and loving (2002); Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier (2004); Prairie Soul: Finding grace in the earth beneath my feet (2004); A Guest of the World: Meditations (2006); and Six-legged soldiers: Using insects as weapons of war (2008). In addition, Jeff co-authored with Bill Reiners, Philosophical Foundations for the Practices of Ecology (2010).

Jeff's current project is a work of fiction in the crime noir tradition, set in the 1970's in San Francisco. The protagonist is an ex-cop who's taken over his father's extermination business-where it transpires that controlling pests includes the two-legged version. The work taps into his life-long love of the noir genre and his knowledge of insects and insecticides.