Winner of the Tom Carter Nonfiction Prize

http://shenandoahliterary.org/642/2015/02/13/going-on-a-burn/

"These wildland firefighters in Iowa and I have something in common with our being on this erstwhile gardening trip. We recognize in each other’s face and voice the primal desire of watching a field go up in smoke, the attraction of sizzling embers on trees and grass turned to an inferno, a fire cathedral suffused with light."