Rebecca Young

Thank you, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology for the amazing month I spent as a writer in residence. I jokingly told my friends and family I was going to Lothlorien for a month, but the joke wasn’t far from the truth. Sitka Spruces…

I am so thrilled to share that my essay “Joan” has won this year’s New Letters award in nonfiction! This essay is close to my heart; it recounts the 1972 Rocky Mountain National Park search for Joan Jardine and Fred Stone, and explores the…

Summer is not my friend when it comes to keeping my website updated! Between mountain climbing and mountain rescue, I tend to forget I’m a writer. I’m looking forward to the snow flying, actually, because it tends to drive me back to my writing…