Some things you learn from books. Some things you learn from rivers.

I spent years as the first female guide on the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam in Utah — reading water, translating the river for people who had come looking for something they couldn't quite name, and slowly understanding what the river was telling me about the harm inside the things we love most.

Before that, I was a Russian cryptologic linguist and intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency. Before that, I was a girl with overnight bags packed by a door that didn't always open.

I write about all of it.

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