About Deep Wild Journal

Published annually each June in a handsome print format, Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry features work in celebration of and defense of places where there are no roads. We are a self-sustaining independent journal with a national and international following. In our first six years, we have featured over 260 writers and artists from throughout the United States and beyond, including over a dozen New Mexicans. In addition to Nancy and Anne’s contributions to the current issue, the cover art is by Santa Fe artist Kathleen Frank.

About the Presentors

Raised along the Wasatch Front in Utah, a New Mexican for the last forty years, Ed Brown has worked with wood, with bits and bytes, and with words. He is editor of Man Alive!, a quarterly journal of New Mexico Men’s Wellness. Ed is a member of the SOMOS community.

Poet Tim Raphael lives in Northern New Mexico between the Rio Grande Gorge and Sangre de Cristo Mountains with his wife, Kate. They try to lure their three grown children home for hikes and farm chores as often as possible. Tim’s poem, “Prayer of a Nonbeliever,” recently won Terrain.org‘s poetry contest,

John Nizalowski’s most recent books are Chronicles of the Forbidden, a finalist for the 2020 Colorado Book Award, and The Emergence of Frank Waters, a volume of scholarly essays he co-edited with Alexander Blackburn. A board member of the Frank Waters Foundation, he is currently working with photographer Stephen Collector on Land of the Sun Father, a photobook based on Waters’ writing.

Rick Kempa is the editor of two collections of writing about Grand Canyon and the founding editor of Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry. He has authored three books of poems, most recently Too Vast for Sleep, and a collection of short essays about the backpacking life, Truths of the Trail. A former Santa Fean and St. John’s College graduate, he now lives in Grand Junction.