 Goltz speaks German, Turkish, Arabic, Azerbaijani and Russian, and now spends about half the year in the field and half in Montana, where he taught part-time at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.His "Azerbaijan Diary" is an account of Azerbaijan during the years after it separated from the Soviet Union, through to the Karabakh War and the rise of Heydar Aliyev to president of Azerbaijan.Goltz is also the author of "Chechnya Diary" (the story of the 1995 Samashki massacre), "Georgia Diary" and, more recently, "Assassinating Shakespeare