Jon Katz has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, GQ and other magazines as well as having a regular column about dogs and rural life for online magazine Slate. He has written sixteen books, many of them about dogs, and co-hosts an award-winning radio show Dog Talk. He lives on a farm in upstate New York where he and his wife keep dogs, sheep, cows, donkeys, a barn cat and four chickens.