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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

“Tributary is a novel whose characters and time are so well inhabited, whose landscapes are so lovingly evoked, we wonder if Richardson is not speaking to us directly from the late 19th century, from a high bench above the Great Salt Lake. The language and writing are surefooted and fresh and often startling the way the best poetry can be startling.
Richardson is a new American voice worth listening to.”
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--Peter Heller, author of The Guide and The Dog Stars

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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.