About Rebecca Lawton

Rebecca Conrad Lawton is an author and natural scientist whose passion is exploring and writing about the outdoor world. Her work has been published in Orion, Sierra, The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Shenandoah, Standing Wave, THEMA, the acorn, More, and other magazines. Her memoir on rivers and the whitewater guiding culture, Reading Water: Lessons from the River (Capital), was a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller and ForeWord Nature Book of the Year finalist.

She has received the Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers, the Redwood Writers Award for Poetry, and other awards. She has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes—in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She is represented by Sally van Haitsma of van Haitsma Literary.

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