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Philip Connors is the author of three books: A Song for the River,
All the Wrong Places, and Fire Season.

His work has won the National Outdoor Book Award, 
the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Reading the West Award for Nonfiction, the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain
Book Competition, a Southwest Book Award, and an n+1
Writer's Fellowship.

He lives and works in the U.S. / Mexico borderlands.






Selected Interviews

A Fire Lookout on What's Lost in a Transition to Technology — An interview with NPR's Nathan Rott

A Song for the River — An interview with David Wilk of WritersCast


The Solitude of a Fire Watcher — An interview with Brett McKay of The Art of Manliness podcast

Seeking Comfort in All the Wrong Places — An interview with Dave Davies of NPR's Fresh Air

Lost and Found — A Q & A with Susan Dunlap for In the Fray


An Isolated Tower in the Gila National Forest — An interview with Spencer Beckwith of KUNM

On Fire Season — A Q & A with Maud Newton for the Paris Review Daily


Fire Lookouts, Kerouac, and Thinking Like a Mountain
— A Q & A with Marianne Moore for Zyzzyva

The Joys of Life in a Lookout Tower — An interview with Scott Simon of NPR's Weekend Edition
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