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In the introduction to Hiking Alone, poet, essayist and artist Mary Beath writes, "In many ways my story is an old one, so familiar it seems almost iconic. Go West. Unbind. Connect to the land. Link your inner journey with the outer one. As a woman, unblock your voice and speak your experience. But within those broad outlines, any individual life unfolds in a complex way..."
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Susan Tweit
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Susan J. Tweit is a plant ecologist who turned to writing when she realized that she loved the stories behind the data more than collecting the data itself. She has won regional and national awards for her writing on "the community of the land," most recently a Silver EDDIE award for "The Refuge," her cover feature for National Parks magazine on the crisis facing the nation's largest elk herd.
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Her ten books include Seasons in the Desert, nominated for the Western States Book Award, The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes and Sandhill Cranes, lauded as "a joy to read" by High Country News.
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