Ruby McConnell

NEWS! I am honored to find Ground Truth among the finalists for the Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction! #books #WritingCommunity

Celebrating ten years of writing the wild and getting people outside! Read about the long and winding road to the publication of an outdoor classic here: open.substack.com/pub/rubygonewi…

Ten years of A Woman's Guide to the Wild! More than 30,000 copies sold. This book has a life of its own. It's been spotted in National Park bookstores, feminist conferences in Poland, on lounge chairs along Lake Michigan, in the Wall Street Journal and everywhere books are sold.

New dispatch from the largest Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world: open.substack.com/pub/rubygonewi…

New from Solid Groud, a little bit of bravery to start your week: open.substack.com/pub/rubygonewi…

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

New from my Substack, Solid Ground: Stories of Earth and Everyday Life. Read, subscribe, and share! The Affluence of Time open.substack.com/pub/rubygonewi…

I am still an independent writer working at the edge of human experience and the environment in a troubled and consequential time. Your support matters and makes my work possible. On Love Canal and the birth of American environmental regulation. rubygonewild.substack.com/p/love-canal

Fire has a long history in Oregon. This week in Solid Ground I look at how an old burn impacted a generation of Oregonians. Read, share, and subscribe to support independent environmental storytelling: rubygonewild.substack.com #environment #wildfire #pnw

These days, in the world of writing, audience is everything; you can help me by subscribing to my Substack- Solid Ground: Stories of Earth and Everyday Life. rubygonewild.substack.com/p/i-sensor

That's right! The blog is back and on Substack. This is the best possible time to become a patron of your favorite writers. Please consider subcribing. Thank you, friends, for reading all these years. On hope and irony, from where it all began: rubygonewild.substack.com

I’ll be at Powell’s Cedar Hills on May 29 at 7 p.m. in conversation with @BrendanOMeara about The Front Runner, Steve Prefontaine, and the stories that move us. Join us! #StevePrefontaine #AuthorEvent #RubyMcConnell

Many thanks to @altajournal for supporting this piece! #truecrime #pnwlife #oregon "Soon, violence crept up from the edges..." Read more about how a charismatic cult leader and his flock took an Oregon county by storm: bit.ly/42lQH3J"

Congratulations @RubyGoneWild on making the @MsMagazine 2024 "Best of the Rest," a selective list of feminist books, with her most recent novel Wilderness and the American Spirit. #FeministBooks #OvercupBooks

The Jazz Club on The Jazz Club, by Maya McConnell on Amazon Music, New Year, new music! music.amazon.com/albums/B0DRSWM… #AmazonMusic

🚨 Breaking News: Updated Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake in California 📷 The earthquake near Petrolia, CA, was magnitude 7.3. This is a major earthquake. See map of tsunami warning for San Francisco, USA. #Earthquake #California

I didn't fly down to walk the red carpet, but I'm still very excited to have taken First Place in the general news category at last night's LA Press Club Arts and Entertainment Journalism awards! (This piece, from Alta Journal also won best illustration.) lapressclub.org

@michaelpollan I think we'd all like to hear more from this demographic!

A new study out of Emory University wants to hear from psychedelically engaged, curious, and skeptical American Jews. Learn more here: jewish-journeys.com

They’re Lying About Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - The American Conservative theamericanconservative.com/theyre-lying-a…

"Wilderness and the American Spirit" has been featured in @ElectricLit! Thanks to the team for the article, and congratulations to @rubygonewild for being featured!✨ #smallpress #overcupbooks #indiepress #bookstagram #bookrecs

Thanks @ElectricLit! "McConnell draws a through line from America’s collective relationship to wild places from everything to the fate of the Donner Party to the CIA’s MKUltra program... Wilderness & The American Spirit is a fascinating read." electricliterature.com/15-indie-press…