Title: Branches (novel)
Content:  Branches is a novel-in-verse by American author Mitch Cullin, with illustrations by the Japanese artist Ryuzo Kikushima. It is the second installment of the writer's Texas Trilogy that also includes the coming-of-age football novel Whompyjawed and the surrealistic novel Tideland. In a 2000 interview with the Austin Chronicle, Cullin stated that his first novel Whompyjawed was a more accurate reflection of West Texas while Branches, he was quoted as saying, "is kind of, maybe to a fault, what other people who haven't really been there might think it's like." Branches was first published in March 2000 as a hardcover edition from The Permanent Press.
Title: Thomas Branch
Content:  Thomas Branch (fl. 1738–1753), was a British author. His Principia Legis et Æquitatis was regarded as "the accumulated spirit and wisdom of ... the English law."
Title: Michael P. Branch
Content:  Michael P. Branch (born December 6, 1963) is an ecocritic, writer, and humorist with over three hundred publications, including work in The Best American Essays, The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. An important member of the environmental and writing community, Western American Literature has described him as part of the "enduring procession of outdoor journalists." His academic work has been called by reviewers as "an excellent entry to the field for the student or general reader who may have read considerably in the area but who is only beginning to make his or her way around the academic study of nature writing". The Best Read Naturalist was called "[a] much needed and thorough collection of Emerson's most significant nature writings." When not writing, Branch enjoys activist and stewardship work, native plant gardening, bucking stovewood, playing blues harmonica, sipping sour mash, cursing at baseball on the radio, and walking at least 1,000 miles each year in the hills and canyons surrounding his high desert home.
Title: Michael P. Branch
Content:  Childhood.” Orion 30.1 (January/February, 2011): 58-63. Also available as a studio-recorded podcast of an author reading of the essay. Branch's writing career spans from academic articles to humor essays. His column for High Country News “Rants from the Hill” included 69 essays from 2010-2016, which were then collected into two books, Raising Wild and Rants from the Hill. With over 200 publications and 300 invited talks, lectures, and workshops, Branch's work has aided in founding ecocriticism. A selection of his work in ecocritcism includes: A selection of his work in creative nonfiction includes:  The Michael P. Branch Papers are curated in the Special Collections and University Archives, University of Nevada, Reno. Established in 2014. 44 boxes to date. (Collection Identifier #2014-05).
Title: Susan Branch
Content:  book, Christmas from the Heart of the Home was nominated for the James Beard Award. She lives on Martha's Vineyard with her partner Joe Hall and runs Susan Branch Studios. Branch's book, A Fine Romance, Falling in Love with the English Countryside (2013), was discussed in an article in Publishers Weekly  both for  the velocity of its sales (going into 3rd printing) and how an established author has taken risks by choosing a hybrid publishing route. Her latest book, Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams, currently a New York Times Bestseller, was published by her own imprint, Spring Street Publishing. Her entry into self publishing is discussed in a recent article in Publishers Weekly.
Title: Susan Branch
Content:  Eldest of Patricia Louise (Smith) and John Patrick Stewart's eight children, Branch grew up in the San Fernando Valley outside of Los Angeles, California. This is chronicled in her 2015 memoir, The Fairy Tale Girl. Her first commercial success manifested in 1978 at the Red Door Gallery in Beverly Hills, California. In 1982, Branch moved from California to the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, a story told in part-two of her memoir, Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams, published in 2016. In 1986, the first of eleven volumes, Heart of the Home, Notes from a Vineyard Kitchen, was published by Hachette Book Group (then "Little, Brown and Company"). In 1990, 
Title: Dan Branch
Content:  Branch is a graduate of the Southern Methodist University School of Law (now the Dedman School of Law), at which he was an editor of the law review. He is an alumnus of the Institute on Comparative Political & Economic Systems at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and he holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees from Oklahoma Christian University, having graduated summa cum laude in 1980.
Title: Michael P. Branch
Content:  Michael Branch received a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William & Mary in 1985. He received a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia. He currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is University Foundation Professor of English. One of the founders of ecocriticism, Branch co-founded the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and served as the president from 1995-1996. He also worked as book review editor for the journal Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and co-edited the series Under the Sign of Nature published by The University of Virginia Press. His professional memberships include the Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, Nature Conservancy, Friends of the Everglades, Sierra Nevada Alliance, League to Save Lake Tahoe, Friends of Nevada Wilderness, Great Basin Mine Watch, Cenozoic Society's Wildlands Project, John Muir Society, Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, American Literature Association, American Society for Environmental History.
Title: John Branch (journalist)
Content:  was released in 2014. It won the 2015 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. Branch wrote the book, The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West, which was released in 2018. The book centres on the Wright family from Utah, sixth generation ranchers who are also some of the world’s best saddle bronc riders. The book came out of a 2015 New York Times article by Branch called The Ride of Their Lives. A collection of Branch's articles and personal essays is to be published in 2021 called Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports. This collection will include the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning feature "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek,".
Title: Glenn Branch
Content:  Branch earned his Master of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles. He won The Rudolph and Ina Carnap Prize for excellent philosophical writing by a graduate student in 1997–98, and the Yost Prize For Excellence In Teaching in 1994–95. He joined the National Center for Science Education in 1999 and has served as the deputy director since 2002. Branch is member of editorial boards of multiple journals.

Question: Who is the author of Branches?
Answer: Mitch Cullin.