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 Articles of the Decade,” Outside’s “Adventure Canon,” and Backpacker’s “New Wilderness Classics.” Her second memoir, Almost Animal, is forthcoming by Spiegel & Grau. Amy lives and writes off-grid from a remote mesa in southwest Colorado.
