In this unique volume, 14 of the US's most distinguished writers pull back the curtain on their processes whilst drafting their works of creative nonfiction. Using side-by-side examples of first drafts and final versions of their writing, including original full-page reproductions from the writers' personal notebooks, an original, illuminating essay accompanies each draft, recounting the journey from inspiration to completion. Offering a generous insight into the creative process from the rough bold strokes to refined, clear, elegant prose, this behind-the-scenes look delves into the creative minds of working writers, including African American, Latin, Asian American, and Indigenous writers from across the US.

An invaluable resource for students and instructors looking to enliven the classroom or offering practicing writers a peak into the processes of their peers, this book presents the false starts and missteps, the self-editing, tinkering, cutting, rearranging and craft working writers make in the plight for perfectly polished prose. The Art of Revising Creative Nonfiction is an enlightening and unparalleled collection of modern-day creativity in action, a must have for aspiring writers and teachers of all levels.

Charles Finn is the former editor of the literary and fine arts magazine High Desert Journal and author of Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters, On a Benediction of Wind: Poems and Photographs from the American West and A Mountain's Idea of Time: Poems. His essays, poems, and nonfiction have been published in a wide variety of journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies across the United States. Also a wood artist, he is owner of FINNFURNITURE & ART and lives in Potomac, MT, with his two cats, Rilke and Tija.

Taylor Brorby is Assistant Professor of English at the Montana State University, USA where he teaches creative nonfiction. He is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land (2022), Crude: Poems (2017), Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience (2017), and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America (2016). He is a contributing editor at North American Review and serves on the editorial boards of Terrain.org and Hub City Press.