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Gender	Female
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Writer
Location	Rockville, Utah, United States
Introduction	My book Heart of the Desert Wild: Grand Staircase—Escalante National Monument won the Utah Book Award for nonfiction. My other award-winning books include Dinosaur! The Dinosaur National Park Quarry; National Park Rangers!; and Moviemaking: Films Made on the Colorado Plateau. I've has also written two books on Bryce Canyon National Park. My latest book is Zion: A Storied Land. My naturalist essays have appeared in Northern Lights, Petroglyph, Canyon Journal, Isotope, Black Ridge Review and in the book Comeback Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home, Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Anthology. I am half of that daring duo, the Adventure Dogs. With my faithful companion Bo, the border collie, I travel the Southwest in search of truth, vision and a good cup of coffee. I rangered for the National Park Service for twenty years at such places as Bandelier National Monument and Zion and Grand Canyon National Parks. I live in Rockville, Utah, with my dogs Bo and Minnie the Jack Russell Terror, and horses Rowdy the White and Valiant.
Favorite movies	Lord of the Rings: all of them
Favorite music	Celtic
Favorite books	Waterlog by Roger Deakin, Where the Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg,