Jeffrey Greene is the author of four poetry collections, including Beautiful Monsters (Pecan Grove Press, 2010). His memoir, French Spirits (Harper Perennial, 2003), has appeared in eight countries, and he has written two personalized nature books, Water from Stone and The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest (University of Virginia Press, 2011). Shades of the Other Shore (Sylph Editions, 2013), a sequence of dialogue sketches, prose pieces, and poetry, was written in collaboration with painter Ralph Petty for The Cahier Series, and his latest nature book, Wild Edibles, is under contract.