NEWPORT The Nye Beach Writers Series Writers on the Edge invites the public to an evening with author Robert Michael Pyle 7 p.m. Saturday, June 15 at the Newport Visual Arts Center, 777 NW Beach Drive in Newport.

For 30 years, Pyle has been an independent, full-time biologist, writer, teacher, and speaker. He has published more than 500 articles, essays, papers, stories and poems. Pyle has taught writing and natural history seminars for many conferences, institutes and colleges around the world. In recent years he has taught writing at Utah State University and the University of Montana.

Pyles popular essay-column, The Tangled Bank, appeared in 52 consecutive issues of Orion Magazine and Orion Afield, and recently came out in book form from Oregon State University Press as The Tangled Bank: Writings from Orion. His 16 books include Wintergreen, The Thunder Tree, Where Bigfoot Walks, Sky Time in Grays River, as well as Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, The Butterflies of Cascadia and several other standard butterfly works.

Pyle dwells with his wife, Thea, a botanist and weaver, in an old Swedish farmstead in southwest Washington.