Patrick Dobson is a writer, scholar, and poet. He is the author of two award-winning travel memoirs, Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains (2009) and Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer (May 2015). His first book of poetry, a brief infidelity and other reveries, was published by Spartan Press in 2017. He earned a doctorate in American History and American Literature in 2013 and teaches American History, Modern Latin American History, and Western Civilization at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.