Emilio DeGrazia has authored four books of fiction, including Seventeen Grams of Soul, winner of a Minnesota Book Award, and Enemy Country, winner of a Writer’s Choice Award. A founding editor of Great River Review, he has co-edited (with his wife Monica) 26 Minnesota Writers and 33 Minnesota Poets. His new book, Walking on Air in a Field of Greens, is a collage of creative prose pieces that focus on family, place and the implications of immigration. He lives downstream in Winona.