Rebecca Lawton, award-winning author of Reading Water: Lessons from the River, The Oasis This Time, and other books, has won a Fulbright Research Chair, Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers, WILLA in Fiction, and many other honors. She's published work in The Sun, Orion, Audubon, and other fine journals and is currently at work on Boatwoman: A River Memoir (Bison/U Nebraska, 2027). Becca leads writing workshops and literary bird walks and blogs about water and the wild.