Amy Irvine
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Amy Irvine

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AMY IRVINE is a sixth-generation Utahn and long-time public lands activist. Her work has appeared in Orion, The Pacific Standard, Climbing, High Desert Journal, Triquarterly, Rock & Ice, Columbia Journal and more. Her memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and Colorado Book Award. Her essay “Spectral Light,” which appeared in Orion Magazine and The Best Science & Nature Writing series, was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism, and her recent essay in The Pacific Standard, “Conflagrations: Motherhood, Madness and a Planet on Fire,” appeared among the 2017 Best American Essays’ list of Notables. Irvine contributed to Red Rock Testimony: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah's Public Lands, a book that galvanized political support for the establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument, in southeastern Utah, with the first-ever co-management between The Department of Interior and a coalition comprised of representatives from five indigenous tribes. She teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA Program of Southern New Hampshire University, in the White Mountains of New England; she also speaks and teaches in writing workshops across the continent. She lives off-the-grid in southwest Colorado, just spitting distance from her Utah homeland.
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