Ana Maria Spagna lives and writes in a remote community in the North Cascades accessible only by boat, foot, or float plane. She is the author of Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey, winner of the 2009 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize and Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw, named a Seattle Times Best Book of 2004. A graduate of Northern Arizona University and Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, she’s currently on the permanent faculty for the Whidbey Writers Workshop low-residency MFA program and is associate editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative.

Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness (Oregon State University Press, 2011), Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw (Oregon State University Press, 2004)

The Face of the Earth (University of California Press, 2011), Telling It Real: The Best of Pilgrimage Magazine (Pilgrimage Press, 2010), Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North (University of Alaska Press, 2009), City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary (Oregon State University Press, 2007), A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild (Travelers' Tales, 2006), Best Essays NW (University of Oregon, 2003)

High Country News, Matter, Mountain Gazette, North American Review, Orion, Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, The Rambler, Under the Sun, Weber Studies