Morgan SimmonsMorgan Simmons is the former outdoor editor for the Knoxville News Sentinel and winner the Tennessee Outdoor Writer of the Year award for seven consecutive years. Over the course of his 28-year career, he covered environmental issues and wrotea hiking column that enabled him to explore the Smokies, become familiar with the challenges facing the park, and report extensively on GSMA and its various projects. He grew up in Martinsville, VA, and graduated from Washington and Lee University with a degree in English. After completing the National Outdoor Leadership School's instructor's course in the mid-1980s, Morgan settled briefly in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming before returning home to the Southern Appalachians to pursue writing, raise a family, and learn the banjo. Singing Creek is Simmons's first book. Morgan Simmons lives near Knoxville, Tennessee. Read More Read Less