Award-win­ning jour­nal­ist Rebec­ca Clar­ren has been writ­ing about the Amer­i­can West for more than twen­ty years. Her mag­a­zine pieces, for which she has won the Hill­man Prize, appear in High Coun­try News, The Nation, and Indi­an Coun­try Today. Her debut nov­el Kick­down was short­list­ed for the PEN/​Bellwether Prize for Social­ly Engaged Fic­tion. An Amer­i­can Inher­i­tance, her work of cre­ative non-fic­tion, was award­ed a Whit­ing Non­fic­tion Award. Her work is reg­u­lar­ly sup­port­ed by the Fund for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism. She lives in Port­land, Ore­gon. with her hus­band and two kids.