KEVIN FEDARKO

Kevin Fedarko has spent the past 20 years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. He has been a staff writer at Time, where he worked primarily on the foreign affairs desk, as well as a senior editor at Outside. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, TheNew York Times, and Esquire, among other publications, and a trio of his adventure stories are anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing. Fedarko’s first book, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon, won the National Outdoor Book Award and the Reading the West Award, and was a New York Times bestseller. His forthcoming book, A Walk in the Park, chronicles his 750-mile odyssey, on foot, with photographer Peter McBride through the heart of the Grand Canyon. He lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona.