He is a recipient of an Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council and was a BookEnds Fellow with Stonybrook University.
[Coffee with a Canine: Giano Cromley & Kaiya and Tanka; My Book, The Movie: The Last Good Halloween]
Originally from Billings, Montana, he graduated from Dartmouth College and received an MFA from the University of Montana. He has worked as a speech writer and deputy press secretary in Washington, DC, and he has taught GED and ESL classes in Chicago. He is currently an English professor at Kennedy-King College, where he is chair of the Communications Department. He is also an amateur woodworker and a certified wildlife tracker. He lives on the South Side of Chicago with his wife and two dogs.
Cromley's new novel is American Mythology.
At CrimeReads the author tagged five "books to broaden your Sasquatch knowledge (whether you believe or not)." One title on Cromley's list:
Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide by Robert Michael PyleRead about the other entries on the list.
A Yale-educated lepidopterist with a PhD in insect conservation ecology and a Guggenheim Fellow, Pyle brings a naturalist’s sensibilityto his explorations of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in western Washington. While conducting biological fieldwork, Bigfoot remains an intellectual itch Pyle can’t help but scratch. “Yet just there and then I was perfectly prepared: not to believe in Bigfoot necessarily, but to believe that the world is wider than we normally wish to accept.” No matter where you fall in the Bigfoot debate, this book is a profound exploration of mankind’s relationship to the natural world.
--Marshal Zeringue
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