Dust Kunkel grew up in Ghana, West Africa. With a mother from Montana and a father from Oregon, he returned to the Pacific Northwest at age seventeen and fell in love with a Northwest girl and the rivers, mountains and canyons of the Northwest. Over the years he has taught literature, guided the Salmon River in Idaho, foster parented teenagers, managed outdoor schools, and directed student leadership programs at a university. Dust has a BA in Literature, an MSc in Outdoor Education from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and is an Executive Coach. Dust and his wife, Jan, live in Oregon City, Oregon, and have two daughters launched from the nest, and two elderly retriever-mixes, Bowie and Percy, who will not launch from any nest. In his free time, Dust reads, goes on adventures with Jan, writes and performs songs and fly-fishes the rivers of the Pacific Northwest (he'd happily fly-fish your local river too, if given the chance!).
