"Jackpine Savage" describes a rare and hearty breed of people in places like International Falls, Minnesota, Bob Shaw's hometown. The tough winters and hard landscape of the northern borderland shaped Shaw's darkly humorous worldview, and inspired these twelve short stories. Collected here are his fictional confessions, spanning from the 1930’s into the not-so-distant future.

Robert MacGregor Shaw lives in Edina, Minnesota. He is the author of Advice to a New Press Association Manager, Life in the Back Shop, and The Bachelor Slob in the Kitchen. Bob has three sons, three daughters-in-law, six grandchildren, no pets, a big vegetable garden in the summer, and three friends.