Amy Irvine

Amy Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn who descends from the first Mormons to occupy the West. Her memoir, Trespass, received the Orion Book Award and the Colorado Book Award. Her second book, Desert Cabal, is a feminist response to Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, and during lockdown, Pam Houston and Irvine coauthored the epistolary Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place. Irvine’s essays have appeared in both The Best American Science & Nature Writing and The Best American Food Writing, as well as Orion, Outside, High Country News, Lit Hub, and Backpacker. She lives and writes on a remote mesa in Colorado.