Deb Liggett is an essayist and poet, now making her home in Tucson, Arizona. Her work has previously appeared in Alaska Magazine, Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry, Pilgrimage, Cirque, Windfall: A Journal of Poetry and Place, and elsewhere. Her work has been anthologized in The Wonder of It All: 100 Stories from the  National Park Service, and in Being Home. Her essay “The Middle of Nowhere” won the Toyon Literary Magazine’s Environmental Justice Award in 2019. Her memoir Pilgrim, Paddler, Poet: The Ranger Chronicles is available on Amazon.