Jerry Auld's short stories have been published in Alpinist magazine and in the Canadian Alpine Journal. He is a graduate of the University of Calgary and an alumnus of the Banff Writing Studio. At the 2005 Banff Mountain Film Festival, Jerry was the co-recipient of the 2005 People's Choice Award for the independent film Sister Extreme. Hooker & Brown is his first novel. Please visit jerryauld.com.

"With this powerful and highly poetic first novel Jerry Auld achieves a new peak in the literary interpretation of the nature, history and culture of the mountain West. It is a book about the power of maps and dreams that explores our relationship to gravity and ghosts, rock, water and place with an ending that will leave you breathless. Auld confirms once again that no one returns from the high places unchanged." -- Robert Sandford, Water, Weather and the Mountain West

"A Rocky Mountain yarn, imaginatively told." -- Karsten Heuer, Being Caribou

"Like a polished stone, Hooker & Brown reveals layers of time, meaning and beauty." -- Thomas Wharton, Icefields