Making a Life on Moving Water

The River You Touch

Words By - Chris Dombrowski

Photography By - Erik Petersen

Making a Life on Moving Water

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Chris Dombrowski
Chris Dombrowski

About the Author

Chris Dombrowski
- Editorial Director

Chris Dombrowski’s nonfiction debut Body of Water was named a Bloomberg News Book of the Year, a Wall Street Journal Top Five Book on Angling, and one of the Five Best Fly Fishing Books by Sports Illustrated. The author of four other books, including The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water, Dombrowski lives in Missoula, where he teaches in the University of Montana MFA Program, and, for a month or so each season, guides on the Blackfoot, Bitterroot, and Clark Fork rivers.

Photo Credit: Erik Peterson
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