Welcome to The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the western United States. Our guest today is Perri Knize from Missoula, Montana.

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Knize is an award-winning environmental policy reporter whose articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, Sports Illustrated, Conde Nast Traveler, and Outside.

Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey, Knize's first book, has been named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.

Get more information about Perri Knize from her Web site.

Recently published books by regional writers include, Twelve Blackfeet Stories, by Mary Strachan Scriver from Valier, Montana.

New from University of New Mexico Press: Mountain Wildflowers of the Southern Rockies, by Carolyn Dodson and William W. Dunmire from Albuquerue, New Mexico.

For more information about new books, contact your favorite bookseller or library.

And here’s an excerpt from a Los Angeles Times review of Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey. "To follow Knize on this crazy-quilt quest is to engage some of the deepest of life's questions: not just why and how music moves us, but why and how we respond to beauty, to the world, to each other -- and how a soul learns to thrive.”

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Barbara Theroux, Prageeta Sharma, Renée McGrath, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by The Greater Montana Foundation — encouraging communication on issues, trends, and values of importance to Montanans. And by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans.

This program included music by Michael Blessing and Springhill.

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Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.