The course: TBA

The Instructor: Amy Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn and descendant of notorious Mormons. Her memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award, Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and the Colorado Book Award. Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, is a feminist response to western wilderness icon Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, and was included in Orion magazine’s 25 Most-Read Stories of the Decade, Outside’s Adventure Canon, and Backpacker’s New Wilderness Classics. Her second memoir, Almost Animal, is forthcoming by Spiegel & Grau. Irvine lives and writes off-grid in southwest Colorado. She is a contributing editor for Orion and teaches both fiction and nonfiction in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA Program at Southern New Hampshire University. 

Duration: This class meets once a week over six consecutive Saturday mornings from 10-1 ET.   

Application period: Apply by TBA