Ruby McConnell is a writer, geologist, and environmentalist living and writing in the Pacific Northwest. Her work examining the relationships between landscape and the human experience won an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in 2016 and has been published in Grain Literary Magazine, Long Reads, Entropy, Complex Online, among others. Her First book, A Woman’s Guide to the Wild, was published in 2015. The middle grade companion, A Girl's Guide to the Wild will be released in Spring of 2019. You can almost always find her in the woods.