Writers’ Stories in Motion

Laura Gray-Rosendale, President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, is the author of numerous books that bring together creative nonfiction, writing studies, and rhetoric. Her books College Girl: A Memoir and Getting Personal: Teaching Personal Writing in the Digital Age have both received IPPY Awards.

“Laura Gray-Rosendale has assembled a collection of beautifully rendered essays that are very personal to me. Since our daughter began her struggle with an eating disorder, I no longer move through the world in the same way. Now, mostly, I walk with my daughter and talk about the places we will go and the book we will one day write when she is better. Then, I see something close to a smile. These essays remind me of that half-smile. They plumb essential and hard-won truths about the beauty and tenuousness of life.”—James Campbell, Author of Braving It and recipient of the Lowell Thomas Travel Writing Silver Medal

• Laura Gray-Rosendale: Introduction – Annette McGivney: Hiking Hard – EiLeen E. Schell: Teaming Up: Running and Writing in Collaboration – Karen Auvinen: Building the Fire: How Routine and Practice Create a Spark – Jill Weiss Ippolito: The Bermuda Standard: Through the Practice of Both Yoga and Writing I Rise Up and Heal from Trauma – Laura Gray-Rosendale: Chasing Creativity: Trail Running to Write – Elizabeth Geoghegan: Uncharted: Walking and Writing Off the Map – Suzanne Roberts: Catching the Next Wave: Writing and Boogie Boarding – Shawna Kenney: Self-Propelled: How Biking Steered My Writing Life – Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes: Snowshoeing on a Lake on a Quiet Evening – Lynn Z. Bloom: Swimming in the Existential Lane – Kyle Boggs: Mountain Biking, Writing, and Reckoning – Optimism one: Writing with Iron – About the Contributors – Index.