Background
Suzanne Roberts was born in New York to a British mother and Jewish father. She grew up in Southern California and currently lives in South Lake Tahoe, California.
( Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It w...)
Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account of that hike. John Muir had written of the Sierra Nevada as a “vast range of light,” and this was exactly what Roberts was looking for. But traveling with two girlfriends, one experienced and unflappable and the other inexperienced and bulimic, she quickly discovered that she needed a new frame of reference. Her story of a month in the backcountry—confronting bears, snowy passes, broken equipment, injuries, and strange men—is as much about finding a woman’s way into outdoor experience as it is about the natural world she so eloquently describes. Candid and funny and, finally, wise, Almost Somewhere is not just the whimsical coming-of-age story of a young woman ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also the reflection of a distinctly feminine view of nature. Watch a book trailer.
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(Suzanne Roberts was raised in Southern California and stu...)
Suzanne Roberts was raised in Southern California and studied at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of another poetry collection, "Shameless" (Cherry Grove Collections). She teaches English at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe, California.
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Suzanne Roberts was born in New York to a British mother and Jewish father. She grew up in Southern California and currently lives in South Lake Tahoe, California.
University of Nevada.
She is the author of the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, and four collections of poetry, Shameless (2007), Nothing to You (2008), Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel (2011) and Plotting Temporality (2012). Roberts was named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic"s Traveler, and her work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Atlanta Review, The Fourth River, Matador, National Geographic"s Intelligent Traveler, and National Geographic"s Traveler. Roberts holds degrees in Biology and English from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a doctorate in English with an emphasis in Literature and the Environment from University of Nevada, Reno.
She teaches English at Lake Tahoe Community College and is on the Master of Fine Arts low residency faculty at Sierra Nevada College.
The Ghost of Muir Pass, The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader. The Mountaineers Press, 2011.
(Suzanne Roberts was raised in Southern California and stu...)
( Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It w...)