Abigail R. Dockter holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and has done botany and archaeology work from the high plains to the Southwest. She has facilitated workshops in both academic and creative writing for the UA Department of English, the Writing Skills Improvement Center, and the Borderlands Earth Care Youth Institute. She wrote for the UA’s Institute of the Environment and edited Nonfiction for Sonora Review. Her work appears in Terrain.org, Edible Southwest Colorado, Essay Daily, and deep in the Mesa Verde National Park website. She enjoys long, dry archaeological reports, and usually hikes with poetry.