Ceal Klingler is a writer, biologist, conservationist, and devoted terrestrial mammal. Her work has appeared in, among other places, High Country News, The Sun, Backpacker, Natural History, and Orion (e.g., “How to Save a Pupfish,” “Air Space“). She received the Waterston Desert Writing Prize in 2021 and a special recognition grant for writing on water from the Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers in 2016. She has also ghostwritten hundreds of pages of comments on thousands of pages of technical documents that probably very few people read and likely none enjoyed. She is writing a book about how desert animals (including humans) and other organisms live together.*

Ceal, who feels awkward writing about herself in the third person, lives off the grid (on solar power) with her husband, their dogs, and an assortment of wild neighbors. She runs, walks, skis, and sometimes crutches thousands of miles each year in the Sierra Nevada, Great Basin, and Mojave mountains and deserts, the homelands of the Nüümü, Newe, and Timbisha people.

*(If you have questions about the southeastern Sierra Nevada or Owens Valley and you think Ceal might be able to help, please feel free to email her (ceal.klingler[at]gmail.com). If you have questions about publishing Ceal’s book, please contact Elizabeth Copps at Copps Literary Services. Many thanks, and be gentle out there!)