Ana Maria Spagna lives and writes in the tiny mountain town of Stehekin, Washington. Her first book, Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw was named a Best Book of 2004 by The Seattle Times, and her stories and essays have appeared in dozens of publications including Orion, Utne, Open Spaces, High Country News, and Backpacker. After working fifteen years on trail crew in the North Cascades, she now teaches creative writing online, at conferences around the West, and in Stehekin’s one room school.