Brian Gawley has been a daily and weekly newspaper reporter since 1989, working for the "Whitman County Gazette," "Columbia Basin Herald," "Grand Coulee Star," "Peninsula Daily News" and "Sequim Gazette." Gawley is a Washington State University Honors Program graduate with a bachelor's degree in communications and a national research paper award winner.
Gawley wrote a 164-page book about three days lost in Olympic National Park in running shorts with no food that included extensive personal interviews, review of public records and library/Internet research.