Sean Prentiss is a environmental writer. In 2013, he settled, with his wife Sarah, onto the banks of a small lake in northern Vermont. 

He is author of Finding Abbey: A Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Grave, a National Outdoor Book Award winner and Vermont and Colorado Book Awards finalist. He is also the co-author of Environmental and Nature Writing: A Craft Guide and Anthology and co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre, which asks creative nonfiction writers to ruminate on creative nonfiction.