Ana Maria Spagna

Ana Maria Spagna lives with her wife, Laurie, in a remote community in the North Cascades accessible only by foot, boat, or float plane. She is the author of several books including The Luckiest Scar on Earth, a novel for readers age 11 & up, Reclaimers, true stories of people reclaiming sacred land and water, the memoir/history Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus, winner of the River Teeth literary nonfiction prize, and three collections of essays, Potluck, Now Go Home, and Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going, forthcoming from University of Washington Press, in which “Fire One, Fire Two” will appear. She now teaches in the low residency MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles.