About
Amy Hagstrom is the author of THE WILD BETWEEN US (Lake Union, 2023) and the upcoming SMOKE SEASON (Lake Union, 2024). With two decades of experience in the travel and outdoor industry, Amy has been recognized as an O Magazine Insider and previous columnist and feature writer at Travel Oregon, US News, and Huff Post. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from Whitworth University. A lifelong outdoors enthusiast, she served as a volunteer EMT with her local county search and rescue unit before launching her travel writing career.
After raising three children in the Pacific Northwest, Amy traded the Cascade, Siskiyou, and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges for the Sierra Madre Mountains, making her home in central Mexico with her wife. Visit her at amyhagstrom.com.
Featured Work
THE WILD BETWEEN US
When Silas Matheson inherits his uncle’s lodge deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, he hopes it will be the fresh start he and his young sons need. Silas had left the area fifteen years prior, after his friend Jessica disappeared while on a hike with him and two other friends, Danny and Meg. When his sons go missing in the same woods, the guilt, shame, and terror come flooding back, along with grown Danny and Meg, who now volunteer with search and rescue.
As the clock ticks, and a storm approaches, secrets from the past begin to infiltrate the present. Will their life-defining misfortune repeat? Will they rectify the past? Will there be any peace in their future? What really happened on that fateful hike in 2003?
Hagstrom’s expert use of a dual timeline keeps the audience guessing. Readers must connect details from 2003 with the circumstances in 2018, but Hagstrom doesn’t draw a direct line. The “wild” in The Wild Between Us is exciting and beautiful, but also unforgiving and dangerous.
