Meet Our Spring 2025 Authors

Featured Authors

Sirena Rana

Sirena Rana is an advocate for the outdoors and wildlife and founder of Trails Inspire, which provides consulting services dedicated to promoting the outdoors as a place of personal health, economic development, and tourism through public speaking, freelance writing, photography, trail design and community engagement. She has worked as the Gateway Community Liaison for the Arizona Trail Association and as a rafting guide in the Grand Canyon. The author of Best Day Hikes on the Arizona National Scenic Trail, Rana has helped to build, maintain, and promote the 800-mile Arizona Trail (AZT), a trail she has completed twice. Rana lives in Tucson. Visit her online at trailsinspire.com or Instagram @desertsirena.

David B. Williams

David B. Williams is an historian, naturalist, and tour guide whose award-winning books include Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound and Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle’s Topography. He publishes a free weekly Substack newsletter, "Street Smart Naturalist." Find David online at geologywriter.com.

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