Timothy Muskat is a poet, mountaineer, former professor, and dedicated father to two extraordinary sons. His life was ruffled or disrupted—take your pick—by cancer with a very long name. Though still working his way back literally and figuratively to the trail, he continues to teach and, in wryest manner of speaking, preach whenever possible and is currently at work on a book of mountain-born poems. He loves winter and for the past twenty years has resided with his wife and various loyal dogs in tiny Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.