Ana Maria Spagna is the author of Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw, a collection of essays forthcoming from Oregon State University Press in April 2004.  In Now Go Home, she reflects on the journey that took her from a childhood in the suburbs of LA to a trail crew in the North Cascades where she has lived and worked for the past fifteen years.  


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Her stories and essays have recently appeared in Orion, Utne Reader, Backpacker, Writer’s Forum, Weber Studies, and Best Essays NW, and she has been the winner of the Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest sponsored by Oregon Quarterly and the If It Moves Personal Essay Contest sponsored by Kinesis.  Ana Maria is a graduate of the University of Oregon and the M.A. program in fiction writing at Northern Arizona University.

 
 

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