Annette McGivney

Annette McGivney is an award-winning journalist and the longtime Southwest Editor for Backpacker magazine. In addition to Backpacker, her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Outside, Arizona Highways, and Sunset magazines. Her June 2007 Backpacker article “Freefall” about the murder of Tomomi Hanamure won a Maggie Award in 2008 from the Western Magazine Publishers Association for Best News Story. Her most recent book Pure Land won the 2018 National Outdoor Book Award for Literature.