National Outdoor Book Award

Today, my guest is Suzanne Roberts, who is the author of the award-winning essay collection, Animal Bodies, On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties, the award-winning travel memoir and essays, Bad Tourist, Misadventures in Love and Travel, and the memoir, Almost Somewhere, 28 Days on the John Muir Trail.

winner of the National Outdoor Book Award, as well as four books of poems.

Named the next great travel writer by National Geographic's Traveler, Suzanne's work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays and included in the Best Women's Travel Writing.

Her work has appeared in the New York Times, CNN, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, The Normal School, River Teeth, and elsewhere.

Annette McGivney says this tragedy exposes the dangerous truth about the booming $2 trillion wellness industry, where promises of spiritual awakening and financial success often mask dangerous practices underpinning, underpinned rather by cultural appropriation and commodification of nature.

Annette McGivney is an award-winning author of five nonfiction books, including Pure Land, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award.

She taught journalism at Northern Arizona University and is a longtime reporter for Outside, Backpacker, The Guardian, Runner's World, and Arizona Highways.

She lives in Cortez, Colorado.