Jon Billman - NMU English

BA in English, Iowa Wesleyan College
MFA, Eastern Washington University 

Born in Rapid City, South Dakota, Jon Billman has worked as a wildland firefighter and high school teacher. His work has appeared in such publications as Esquire, Outside, Mountain, Zoetrope: All-Story, ZYZZYVA, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. He is the author of the book When We Were Wolves (Random House). He lives with his wife, Hilary, and kids, Avalyn and Samuel, in Green Garden, Michigan.

• Fiction
• Magazine Journalism
• Creative Nonfiction

“Sixty is the New 25,” Outside, Feb./March 2016

“One Way to Die in the West,” Mountain, Deep Winter 2016

“Fatbikes vs. the Polar Vortex,” Outside Online, March 11, 2014

“Squaring the Legend of Troy James Knapp,” Outside Online, April 10, 2013