Joshua Veith is an educator, adventurer, and outdoor enthusiast. He has traveled to more than 30 countries—including China, Nepal, Syria, and Turkey—and once made a 19-day Pacific Ocean crossing on a cargo freighter from Seattle to Hong Kong. For three years Josh worked as a deckhand on commercial fishing trawlers on the Atlantic Ocean. He graduated from the University of Michigan, later earning an MA in Literature from Eastern Michigan University. Today, Joshua lives with his wife and two sons in northern Michigan, fishes and hikes in the same spots that Hemingway enjoyed, and teaches a literature class on JRR Tolkien. As a public school teacher and writer, Josh strives to be an Indigenous ally, recognizing that traditional relationships with the environment offer the most sustainable pathways for humankind’s interaction with the planet.