Stephen J. Bodio was born and educated in Boston and has lived in Magdalena, New Mexico, for over twenty years. He has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and especially Asia.

He has been an editor at publications as diverse as English Literary Renaissance and Gray's Sporting Journal, where he wrote a book review column for twelve years. He has reviewed everything from novels to natural history in many publications, from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the London Times Literary Supplement to Outdoor Life. His articles, essays, and stories have appeared in publications as diverse as The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, the LA Times Magazine, Northern Lights, Double Gun Journal, and Simple Cooking, as well as in literary quarterlies. For nine years he was a founding and resident faculty member at Sterling College's Wildbranch Writers Workshop in Vermont. His most recent book, Eagle Dreams, is about the Kazakh horsemen of Mongolia. An excerpt, published in The Atlantic, is included in the anthology The Best American Travel Writing 2002. He travels as often as he can afford—which is not as often as he wishes—in Central Asia and the former Soviet Union. He is now working on many projects, including a book about the origins of dogs in Central Asia, one on the Passenger pigeon, and assisting with a translation of a 19th Century Siberian natural history book.

Bibliography: Reviews of Eagle Dreams, On the Edge of the Wild , Querencia and others can be found at Amazon.com
A Rage for Falcons	Lyons & Burford, 1984 (pb Pruett, 1992)
Good Guns	Lyons & Burford, 1986
The Art of Shooting Flying	(Editor) Gray’s Sporting Journal Press, 1988
Aloft: A Meditation on Pigeons and Pigeon-Flying	Lyons & Burford, 1990 (pb Pruett, 1993)
Querencia	Clark City Press, 1990 (in print, hb & pb)
Good Guns Again	Wilderness Adventures Press, 1984
On the Edge of the Wild	The Lyons Press, 1998
Eagle Dreams	The Lyons Press, 2003
Anthologized in (most recently):
Getting Over the Color Green (fiction)	Ed. by Scott Slovic (U AZ Press, 2001)
The Best Travel Writing 2002	Ed. By Frances Mayes (Houghton Mifflin)
Art and Photography Introductions:
The Working Retrievers	By Thomas Quinn (Lyons Press, 1998)
The Art of Thomas Aquinas Daly	By Thomas Daly et al. (T D Studio, 1998)
Voices, Circles, Echoes	By George Drennan (Printing Corner Press, 1996)
Translation (from the French) (no credited first edition – request to see letters if desired)
Legendary Sporting Guns	By Eric Joly (Abbeville, 1998)