Larry D. Hodge

Hodge's travel articles and photographs have appeared in Texas Highways, the San Antonio Express-News, and the Austin American-Statesman. His outdoor stories and photographs have appeared in Texas Parks & Wildlife, Texas Fish & Game, Texas Wildlife, Texas Sporting Journal, African Hunting Gazette and Texas Sportsman. His writing and photography have won awards from the Texas Outdoor Writers Association and the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Excerpts from his work were included in a special section on Texas writers in a high school literature series. Since making his first trip to Alaska in 2008, he has returned to vacation there every summer. He now owns a house on Adak Island in the Aleutians. Books Hodge has authored include a number of educational titles as well as The Texas Dog Lover's Companion, Good Times in Texas, Texas Tales in Words and Music, Backroads of Texas, and the Official Guide to Texas Wildlife Management Areas. The latter book was illustrated with nearly 150 of Hodge's photographs. A collection of his stories from Texas Highways was his first Kindle publication. He has begun a series of fiction novels based on his life-long affection for orange-and-white tomcats. Hodge was executive editor of Texas Parks & Wildlife Press and wildlife editor of Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine from 2000 to 2003. Since 2003 he has been an information specialist for TPWD's Inland Fisheries Division and is a contributing writer and photographer to Texas Parks & Wildlife. He also manages several Facebook pages for TPWD. He has recently begun shooting and editing video in addition to writing and still photography and finds that the three are in fact complementary.