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NONFICTION

This is a family-friendly nonfiction work-in-progress highlighting our summer as volunteer campground hosts in Great Basin National Park. Filled with insights and photographs of the changing season, from wild flowers and deer to the Milky Way Galaxy in the night sky overhead, Great Basin Summer: notes from the campground combines written stories accompanied by related photos.

The experience has been transformative for us. As a MFA creative writing student, especially with a Nature Writing concentration, my main focus in this project is putting into words just how and where and why it has been so transformative. 

I kept a detailed journal of our experience including interviews with some of the park rangers we got to know and revere over the summer, while Bob was ever-ready with his camera, capturing moments of the Park's flora, fauna, sweeping landscapes and spectacular night skies. The bumblebees he photographed at our campsite were counted in the Great Basin BioBlitz 2025 event in June.

I will update here as I get closer to finished manuscript.

Photo on mock cover by Bob Hartman ©2025.