Ana Maria Spagna

Creative Nonfiction Writer

Stehekin, WA
Washington US
Website: 
www.anamariaspagna.com

Author's Bio

Ana Maria Spagna lives and writes in a remote community in the North Cascades accessible only by boat, foot, or float plane. She is the author of Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey, winner of the 2009 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize and Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw, named a Seattle Times Best Book of 2004. A graduate of Northern Arizona University and Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, she’s currently on the permanent faculty for the Whidbey Writers Workshop low-residency MFA program and is associate editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Face of the Earth (University of California Press, 2011)
,
Telling It Real: The Best of Pilgrimage Magazine (Pilgrimage Press, 2010)
,
Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North (University of Alaska Press, 2009)
,
City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary (Oregon State University Press, 2007)
,
A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild (Travelers' Tales, 2006)
,
Best Essays NW (University of Oregon, 2003)
Books:
Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness (Oregon State University Press, 2011)
,
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey (University of Nebraska Press, 2010)
,
Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw (Oregon State University Press, 2004)
Journals:
High Country News
,
Matter
,
Mountain Gazette
,
North American Review
,
Orion
,
Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
,
The Rambler
,
Under the Sun
,
Weber Studies
Prizes won: 

2009 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Shortlisted for 2011 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Bogota
Raised in: 
Riverside, CA
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Last update: Jan 21, 2011