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Mark Leichliter is a freelance writer and editor living near Jackson Hole, WY and is focused primarily on producing literary fiction and creative nonfiction. After teaching writing for seventeen years at the University of Northern Colorado and several years at the University of Wyoming, he left teaching to write full time. He publishes fiction, essays, and poetry under the pseudonym Mark Hummel, and his work regularly appears in numerous literary magazines, including The Bloomsbury Review, Fugue, and Talking River Review, among others. He has recently completed work on a novel titled Water Cycle. Several excerpts of this novel have appeared in anthologies and literary magazines, including a section titled "Pretty" that won an honorable mention award in the annual Zone 3 fiction contest. The author of a short story collection titled Lost and Found, he holds a graduate degree in English Literature with an emphasis in creative writing and studied under John Edgar Wideman and Robert Roripaugh. His focus in Suite 101 articles has largely been on Enviromental issues, which is an outgrowth of much of his literary nonfiction and his time teaching within college Environmental Studies programs; additional web articles have focused on his passions for contemporary literature and college basketball. Leichliter also works as a freelance editor and writing coach critiquing manuscripts for aspiring fiction writers and essayists through the website www.thewordwright.net.