Steven Rinella

Steven Rinella is an avid outdoorsman, writer, and television host best known for his ability to translate the hunting lifestyle to a wide variety of audiences. He is the author of "The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine" (Miramax Books, 2005) and "American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon" (Random House, 2008). The latter title, which chronicles his buffalo hunt in the wilds of Alaska's Wrangell Mountains, won a number of awards including the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. It was also chosen by Amazon.com as a Book of the Month selection and by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best 50 non-fiction books of 2008.

While Rinella's writing has appeared in a wide variety of popular publications, including Glamour, Men’s Journal, Outside, New Yorker, the New York Times, Salon.com, and O the Oprah Magazine, he has also written widely for traditional hunting and fishing publications such as Field and Stream, Fly Fisherman, Bowhunter, and the National Rifle Association's American Hunter online.

Currently, he is on the editorial staff of Petersen's Hunting, where he writes a monthly column. His magazine stories have been collected in the annual anthologies "Best American Travel Writing" (2003 and 2010) and "Best Food Writing" (2005). He has appeared a number of times on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," where he discussed his hunting adventures, and has also been interviewed about hunting on such mainstream news outlets as CNN's "American Morning" and the Sunday broadcast of "Fox and Friends." In 2011, Rinella hosted "The Wild Within" on Travel Channel. His new show, "MeatEater," premiered on Sportsman Channel in 2012.

His third book, "Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter," about his experiences as a lifelong outdoorsman, was published in the fall of 2012 by Spiegel and Grau.

Steven was born in Twin Lake, Michigan, and has lived in Montana, Wyoming, and Alaska. He currently resides in New York and maintains a moldy hunting and fishing shack in southeast Alaska.