Karen Denison is a Federation of Fly-Fishers' certified casting instructor and assistant manager of High Desert Angler in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bill Orr, an avid fly tyer from childhood, has been a commercial tyer since 1986 and is a manager of High Desert Angler. Craig Martin is a freelance writer (and avid angler) living in Los Alamos, where he has been project manager for several grants related to watershed recovery after the Cerro Grande fire of 2000.

