Kate Harris is a writer with a knack for getting lost. Her award-winning nature and travel writing has been cited in the anthologies The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing, and featured in the Walrus, Canadian Geographic, and the Georgia Review. A Rhodes scholar and Morehead-Cain scholar, she has been named one of Canada's top modern-day explorers and awarded the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award. She lives off-grid in a log cabin on the border of the Yukon, British Columbia, and Alaska. This is her first book.