Ruth Ann Dandrea

“Sometimes you need a story more than food to stay alive,” says Badger in Barry Lopez’s Crow and Weasel. Ruth Ann Dandrea spent more than thirty years teaching high school kids to believe this truth. She currently works as fiction editor for the magazine Doubly Mad. Her stories and poems have appeared in literary magazines. Her essays and editorials in newspapers and education publications. She is also co-author of a book on women’s kayaking called WOW: Women on Water. Summer Thursdays you can find her paddling a yellow boat on quiet Adirondack waters.