Friday, February 24, 5:30 pm at Darvill’s Bookstore
— from JoEllen Moldoff for Artsmith —
Ana Maria Spagna returns to read from her nonfiction book, Reclaimers, about removal of the White Salmon River dam, and her new middle-grade novel, The Luckiest Scar on Earth, about the adventures of a back-country, snowboarding teen turned environmentalist.
Ana Maria Spagna is the author of Reclaimers,100 Skills You’ll Need for the End of the World (as We Know It) a humor-infused exploration of how to live more lightly on the planet, the memoir/history Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey, winner of the River Teeth literary nonfiction prize, and two collections of essays, Potluck, finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Now Go Home, a Seattle Times Best Book of 2004.
Her essays on nature, work, civil rights, and life in a small community have appeared in Orion, Ecotone, Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School, North American Review, Brevity, and regularly in High Country News, and her first novel for young people, The Luckiest Scar on Earth. After working fifteen years on backcountry trail crews for the National Park Service, she turned to teaching creative nonfiction at the Whidbey Writers Workshop at Northwest Institute of Literary Arts where she also served as MFA Program Director and now at Antioch University, Los Angeles.
