Amy Irvine reads from Trespass

March 11, 2009

Amy Irvine is a nationally ranked competitive rock climber and for five years was the development director at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Her book, Trespass, is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was among her own people.

More than simply an exploration of personal loss, Trespass is an elegy for a dying world, for the ruin of one of our most beloved and unique desert landscapes and for our vanishing connection to it. This special evening, Amy Irvine read from her book Trespass. This event was co-sponsored by the Wilderness Society.

Irvine's Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land won the 2009 Orion Book Award. Check out this article for more information on this exciting acheivement.