Michael J. DeLuca is an environmental justice hermit, guerilla ranger and forager of invasive plants. His debut novel The Jaguar Mask was a Small Spec Book Award finalist. His novella Night Roll was a finalist for the Crawford Award. He publishes and edits for Reckoning, a journal of creative writing on environmental justice, and he runs the indie ebookstore Weightless Books. A son of Boston bricklayers, he lives in the post-industrial woodlands north of Detroit with partner, kid, cats, and microbes.