William S. Sutton lives in the mountains west of Boulder, Colorado and was a Professor at Regis College in Denver. He was born in 1956 in Toledo, Ohio, and received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Colorado in Boulder. In 1981 he was awarded a major fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His photographs have been exhibited widely and are in the permanent collections of numerous institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Denver Art Museum, the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Princeton University Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Arizona State University, University of Colorado, Colorado Historical Society, University of Chicago, and others. In 2013 he published his first monograph with GFT Books, At Home in the West: The Lure of Public Lands. From 2012 - 2014 he collaborated with Michael Berman and Frank Goodyear on the Wyoming Grasslands Photographic Project. In 2015 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.