Earl Vincent de BergeAn Arizona native, Earl is a poet and photographer, writing eclectically on everything from the environment to gold mining camps, time, war, poverty, shadows, sexuality, friendship, hermits, children, hope, aging, coyotes, hawks, brigands, fools, daner and death. A social scientist by training, he founded Behavior Research Center, Inc. in 1965, where he created and was Editor of the respected and widely published Rocky Mountain Poll for 35 years. Earl's photographs, logbooks and essays serve as foundations for his prose and poems. Big Ears Jack and Friends is a charming series of short stories featuring animals and plants of the Sonoran Desert for young readers.Earl has published 3 collections of poems, the most recent is Wind in the Elephant Tree, following Swans to Guide Me and Allegro to Life, both published in 2022. A Finger of Land on An Old Man's Hand is a fascinating account, laced with his poetry and photos, of his adventures as a young man in the Sonoran deserts of Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona. Earl is currently writing a biography of an iconoclastic poet, while continuing to write new poems. Earl and his wife Suzanne split their time between Arizona and Guatemala where they founded the non-profit www.SeedsforaFuture.org which provides training to rural women with limited financial resources on how to improve family access to adequate food and nutrition, via home gardens and raising small animals for protein. Read More Read Less