Steve Devitt started writing for publication in 1963, as a junior in high school, writing for his high school newspaper in Billings Montana. He worked his way through college on journalism scholarships. In 1969, he became the youngest editor in Montana, working at the Choteau Acantha, a hot-lead weekly. Before moving on to teach at the university level in 1994, he edited half a dozen weeklies, two daily newspapers and had a successful career as a freelance writer. Since then, he has taught in the United States, China and Nigeria. In the 1970s, he wrote for what was then called "the underground press." He was an associate editor of the College Press Service, served as news editor of the Vancouver, BC, Georgia Strait. In 1980, he founded the Montana Maverick, a weekly he published for three years. He lives in Tucson, Ariz., with his wife Suyun, and Mr. Dog.