AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR + JOURNALIST
Annette McGivney
Annette McGivney is an award-winning investigative journalist and author based in Cortez, Colorado. Plastic Shaman is her sixth book. Her previous book, Pure Land, about the murder of Tomomi Hanamure in the Grand Canyon, won the National Outdoor Book Award in 2018. Pure Land was the debut selection for Outside Magazine’s book club in 2017 and named by the magazine on a list of “outdoor books that shaped the last decade.”
Annette is a frequent contributor to the Guardian, Outside and Arizona Highways; her articles focus on Southwest culture, the environment and Indigenous issues. She is a professor emeritus in Journalism at Northern Arizona University where she taught for two decades. Annette is also the founder of the non-profit Healing Lands Project, which is managed by Grand Canyon Youth, and provides guided wilderness trips to underserved populations. Annette’s next book, titled Lucky, explores the unique, life-affirming relationship between humans and dogs.
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Healing Lands Project
The Healing Lands Project is a non-profit initiative under Grand Canyon Youth dedicated to facilitating wilderness trips for child victims of family violence. This innovative program utilizes the healing power of the natural world to soothe the wounds of trauma and violence.
After writing about her experience surviving family violence in her book Pure Land, Annette founded The Healing Lands Project with the intention of using proceeds from the book to support today’s child survivors of domestic abuse. Nature was a lifeline for Annette during childhood and she wants to pay it forward.
