About the Author

E. R. Baxter III, Niagara County Community College Professor Emeritus of English, has been a fellow of a New York State Creative Service Award for fiction and a recipient of a Just Buffalo Award for Fiction. Publications include Niagara Digressions (innovative non-fiction), Niagara Lost and Found: New and Selected Poems (223 p), Looking for Niagara, and the chapbooks And Other Poems; A Good War; Hunger; and What I Want. Additional work has appeared in the Albany Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Hartford Courant, New Madrid, Slipstream, Stone Canoe, Underbeat Journal #2, and in Wormwood Review. Baxter is also a founding member of Niagara Heritage Partnership (www.niagaraheritage.org).

In 2000, the Buffalo Audubon Society, Inc., presented him with the Harry Jay Kord Recognition Award for “outstanding contributions to the cause of education and conservation in Western New York.” He was also presented with the Friends of the Buffalo Niagara Rivers 2004 Award for “Outstanding Commitment to the Buffalo Niagara Rivers for his efforts to restore the Niagara River Gorge and Niagara Reservation.” His founding of the Niagara Frontier Wildlife Habitat Council (www.nfwhc.org) was a part of the above efforts.
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