Susan Marsh -

My first poetry chapbook, 2022

Selected Works

Winner, May Sarton Award for contemporary fiction When ostracized daughter Agnes Clayton, now middle-aged and alone, returns to the wilds of the Northwest after a life in various western cities, she is determined to make moving her father out of their family home in War Creek as quick and painless as possible. Reconnecting with her estranged father, a retired ranger, proves difficult at best, and extracting him from his fiercely beloved ranger station seems impossible. Over the course of a long summer she becomes entangled with opposing forces in the isolated rural community in the Cascade Mountains. Agnes hopes to answer questions from her past and find not only closure but redemption.

A Hunger for High Country

"A Hunger for High Country is the real deal, written from the heart and head by someone who was there. She is spot on in her descriptions and analysis of two National Forests from the 1980s to 2010. The Greater Yellowstone Region is perhaps the most remarkable piece of wild land left in the lower 48 states, and this memoir is the story of a professional life lived in that place. But what makes this book unique is that it’s written by one of the first generation of women to work as a field-going professional for the U.S. Forest Service."

–Louise Wagenknecht, author of Light on the Devils

Saving Wyoming’s Hoback: The Grassroots Movement that Stopped Natural Gas Development

"A fine, personal story of how people who don't always agree with each other found common cause in opposing the industrial development of a magnificent mountain backcountry. Success stories are rare in the environmental field, and this ‘win’ in the Wyoming Range was a big one.”

—Fred Swanson, author of Where Roads Will Never Reach (University of Utah Press 2015)

Cache Creek: A Trailside Guide to Jackson Hole's Backyard Wilderness

The Wild Wyoming Range

"The Wild Wyoming Range is a luscious book in both words and photographs about one of the most spiritual places on the planet—a place of unforgettable natural beauty, landscape, wildlife and western history."

–Tom Mangelsen, photographer

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