Stephen G MetzgerStephen Metzger has worked as a freelance writer since the early 1980s. He has written numerous travel books and is the co-author of the popular college textbook The Writer's Way (Cengage Learning) as well as hundreds of articles and essays for a wid range of local, national, and international publications. He has also published fiction and poetry in literary journals. He taught writing, literature, and journalism at California State University, Chico from 1982 to 2010 and composition at Butte Community College from 2010 to 2018. His daughter Hannah is a seventh-grade science teacher, and his daughter Gina teaches fourth grade, both in Chico. Stephen lives in Chico with his partner, Jan Hill, also a writer, and their sweet but high-maintenance black Lab, Rosie. Read More Read Less