Jerry McGahan (1943–2016) was the author of the story collection The Deer Walking Upside Down (Schaffner Press, 2015) and the novel A Condor Brings the Sun (1996). His stories and essays were published by the Iowa Review, the Antioch Review, the Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and other literary journals. McGahan passed away with his wife Janet by his side, in the house he built in Arlee, Montana, on the land he loved for almost fifty years.