Michael Punke is the author of <i>The Revenant</i> which was made into an Oscar winning movie directed by Alejandro Gonzalez starring Leonardo DiCaprio. He lives with his family in Montana. Punke is the history correspondent for <i>Montana Quarterly</i> magazine. Punke is also the author of a work of nonfiction, <i>Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917</i>, a finalist for the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award.
