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​Utah Book Award * WILLA Finalist * 15 Bytes Book Award ​

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​"A remarkable odyssey of the American West." 
—Molly Gloss

"Lyrical prose and heartfelt characters shine through." 
—Publishers Weekly

"A tale of the Old West big enough to crawl into completely." 
—Lisa Jones

"Richardson is a new American voice worth listening to." 
—Peter Heller

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Silver Nautilus Award


​"This is nature writing at its best."  —Boulder Daily Camera

An anthology celebrating the Earth's generous crust featuring award-winning scientists, authors, artists, and farmers to tell dirt's exuberant tales. Essayists include Pam Houston, Vandana Shiva, Bernd Heinrich, Linda Hogan, Janisse Ray, Laura Pritchett, Jana Richman, and Peter Heller. 

"Nothing is as powerful as beauty in a wicked world." —Amos Lee

A landscape designer with an MFA in poetry, Richardson has renovated seven houses and planted hundreds of trees to fuel her love of writing.
 
Her novel Tributary follows the lives of a small band of Nineteenth-century mavericks who put down roots among the Saints in the northern Utah desert.
 
​Her anthology Dirt: A Love Story—36 Writers Get Down to Earth celebrates the complex, fruitful, and inspiring ground beneath our feet.
 
Trees and ibises and dogs inspire her. She writes and hikes in Colorado’s Front Range.