Sarah Gilman

Sarah Gilman met Ellen during a writing workshop on the banks of the San Juan River in Utah, while on a field-based college environmental studies program traveling around the American West. Since then, Sarah has enjoyed Ellen’s books while camping on glaciers in Alaska and backpacking and boating through the Southwest deserts that Ellen held so dear. Sarah spent most of her life in the Colorado Rockies, but these days, she dwells in the rainshadow of Washington’s North Cascades, in a small house on the edge of a surprisingly scenic and bird-frequented sewage lagoon, with Taiga the special tiny wolf and Poa the best bad cat. Sarah is an independent writer, illustrator, and editor who covers the environment, natural history, science, and place. You can find her published words and art in magazines like High Country News, The Atlantic, YES!, Sierra, Audubon, Adventure Journal Quarterly, and Smithsonian, as well as in the Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best Women’s Travel Writing anthologies. Her illustrations have appeared in books by Craig Childs, Ben Goldfarb, Laura Poppick, and Madeline Ostrander, among others.