About
Rebecca Lawton is an award-winning author and former fluvial geologist and Colorado River guide. Her essays and stories have been published in Aeon, Audubon, Orion, The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Sierra, and many other journals. She has published ten books on water, science, and the outdoors, and has teamed with other researchers on numerous technical articles. Her literary awards include a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, Nautilus Book Award, Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers, Waterston Desert Writing Prize, WILLA Award for original softcover fiction, and Pushcart Prize nominations in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Rebecca river-guided commercially and served as a National Park Service river ranger in the Grand Canyon and other wilderness areas for fourteen seasons. She has researched and presented on climate and water communication as an invited speaker and freelance writer.
Featured Work
Swimming Grand Canyon and Other Poems
Aas photographer, former Grand Canyon guide, and author of Path of Beauty: Photographic Adventures in the Grand Canyon Chris Brown writes, “Swimming Grand Canyon is a most unusual take on the place, contained in quirky poems from Lawton’s life on her way downstream . . . Lives loved, loves lost, detours, and roads not taken. Her writing is beautiful and rich. Each poem is carefully crafted, and each line points directly to its target. Metaphors for our lives burst into our consciousness and deepen our own experience. Every poem is an unexpected gem, its own universe. Whatever you think these poems will be—they are not that.”
