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          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
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          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Ruby McConnell

Ruby McConnell Oregon

Ruby McConnell is a writer, geologist, and environmental activist whose award-winning work has been featured in Ms. Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and Mother Earth News. She is author of the critically-acclaimed outdoor series A Woman’s Guide to the Wild and A Girl’s Guide to the Wild, and Ground Truth: A Geologic Survey of a Life, which was a finalist for the 2020 Oregon Book Awards. Look for her new book, Wilderness and the American Spirit: Mapping the Route to Post-Millennial Environmentalism fall, 2023. You can almost always find her in the woods.

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