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Greer Chesher’s book Heart of the Desert Wild: Grand Staircase—Escalante National Monument won the Utah Book Award for nonfiction. Chesher’s other award-winning books include Dinosaur! The Dinosaur National Park Quarry; National Park Rangers! An Activity and Sticker Book for kids; and Moviemaking: Films Made on the Colorado Plateau.

She has also written two books on Bryce Canyon National Park: The Desert’s Hoodoo Heart and Bryce Canyon Impressions. Her latest book: Zion: A Storied Land was released in spring, 2007 by the University of Arizona Press. Her naturalist essays have appeared in Northern Lights, Petroglyph, Canyon Journal, Isotope, Black Ridge Review and in the book Comeback Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home, Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Anthology.

Chesher is half of that daring duo, the Adventure Dogs. With her faithful companion Bo, the border collie, Greer travels the Southwest in search of truth, vision and a good cup of coffee. She rangered for the National Park Service for twenty years at such places as Bandelier National Monument and Zion and Grand Canyon National Parks. She lives in Rockville, Utah, with her dogs Bo and Minnie the Jack Russell Terror, and her horses Rowdy the White and Valiant.