She’s at work on a nonfiction book about growing up amid drought and wildfire in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Her writing appears in Best American Essays 2015 and elsewhere. Also reading at the event is Kendra Atleework, the 2016 recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writer’s Award. Her first book, Lands of Lost Borders, is forthcoming with Knopf Canada. Named one of Canada’s top modern-day explorers, and past winner of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writer’s Award, her travels edging the limits of nations, endurance, and sanity have taken her to all seven continents. Reading at the event will be Kate Harris, a writer and adventurer who lives off-grid in Atlin, BC. The Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers and the Lopez Library will present a literary non-fiction event bringing to the Northwest two celebrated desert writers who have been recognized for excellence by the Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers.
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