Patrick D. Murphy is a professor of English and teaches in the Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Founding editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, he is currently the Art and the Natural Environment section editor for the journal Organization and Environment. Author of Understanding Gary Snyder and Literature, Nature, and Other: Ecofeminist Critiques, he has edited and co-edited several other books, including, with Greta Gaard, Ecofeminist Literary Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy. He has recently completed a monograph tentatively titled Farther Afield in Literary Ecology (forthcoming 1999) and is co-editing, with Roberto Forns-Broggi, a special issue of the Hispanic Journal on ecology in Latin American literature.