Ana Maria Spagna teaches creative nonfiction in the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program at Northwest Institute of Literary Arts and is a UWP author of Reclaimers (2015). She is the author of Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness (Oregon State UP, 2011), finalist for the 2012 Washington State Book Award, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey (Bison Books-Univ of Nebraska Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, and Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw (Oregon State UP, 2004), named a Best Book of 2004.
