Michael P. Branch is an ecocritic, writer, and humorist with over three hundred publications, including work in The Best American Essays, The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. An important member of the environmental and writing community, Western American Literature has described him as part of the "enduring procession of outdoor journalists."

The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology
1996
ISBN 9780820317816
Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness
2016
ISBN 9781611803457
Rants from the Hill
2017
ISBN 9781611804577
How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives from the High Desert
2018
ISBN 9781611804614
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer
2022
ISBN 9781643139333
The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley
1998