Margaret Erhart

Margaret Erhart, MFA, is a river and hiking guide in Grand Canyon and on the San Juan River and the author of five novels. Margie's fourth book, Crossing Bully Creek, won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize in 2005. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor and in several anthologies, and her commentaries have aired on National Public Radio. Margie has been swinging a butterfly net since the turn of the millennium, and has a good working knowledge of the bugs of the Colorado Plateau. She lives in Flagstaff and teaches creative writing.