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Mary Clearman Blew struck out on her own, leaving rural Montana and a life as a housewife to become a professor and writer.
by Andrea Clark Mason,
Sep 22, 2011
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Nevada writer H. Lee Barnes brings his experiences as a soldier, cop and casino dealer to his gritty short stories and nonfiction.
by Caleb Cage,
Sep 18, 2011
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A young writer named Steve Edwards spends seven months living by Oregon's Rogue River in his memoir, Breaking into the Backcountry.
by Annie Dawid,
Dec 06, 2010
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Laura Bell's new memoir, Claiming Ground, tells of her years spent working as a Wyoming sheepherder.
by Traci J. Macnamara,
Jun 07, 2010
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In her memoir, Riding the Edge of an Era, Diana Allen Kouris relates the life described in her subtitle’s words: Growing Up Cowboy on the Outlaw Trail.
by Linda M. Hasselstrom,
Oct 26, 2009
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Two recent memoirs -- Siesta Lane by Amy Minato and Lift by Rebecca K. O'Connor -- raise questions about the meaning of home, for both humans and falcons.
by Melissa Hart,
Sep 14, 2009
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Amy Irvine’s memoir, Trespass, describes how she
moved to rural Utah after her father’s suicide.
by Sara Rubin,
Apr 28, 2008
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The essays in Gary Paul Nabhan’s Arab/American
celebrate the landscape, culture and cuisine of two great deserts:
The Middle Eastern lands from which his ancestors came and the
Sonoran Desert he now lives in.
by Evelyn Schlatter,
Apr 14, 2008
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Rick Bass’ memoir, Why I Came West, describes how
his 20-year struggle to save Montana’s Yaak Valley held him
hostage, preventing him from concentrating on writing the short
fiction that he loves.
by Eric Peterson,
Apr 14, 2008
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William deBuys writes poetically and thoughtfully about his own life in New Mexico in The Walk.
by Laura Paskus,
Dec 24, 2007
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