Meet Our authors

walker abel
HE/HIM Award-winning author of The Uncallused Hand and Five Hearts of Aloneness

Jenny Noble Anderson
SHE/HER Author of Can Buddhists Wear Mascara

Quinn Bailey
HE/HIM Award-winning author of The Currents of the World

Heidi Barr
SHE/HER Award-winning Author and Editor of the Mindful Kitchen at The Wayfarer Magazine

Rick Benjamin
HE/HIM Award-winning author of Bodies in the Grief

burt bradley
HE/HIM Award-winning Poet of After Following

Lucy Bryan
SHE/HER Author of In Between Places

Matthew Dickerson
HE/HIM Author of Voices of Rivers

Rebecca Dietrich
SHE/HER Author of Under the Stars of Turtle Island

Stephen Drew
HE/HIM Author of Into the Thin: A Pilgrimage Walk Across Northern Spain

Heather Durham
SHE/HER Author of Wolf Tree and Sylvan Crone

C.W. Emerson
HE/HIM author of Danger Face

Will Falk
HE/HIM Author of How Dams Fall

Rev. Matthew Fox
HE/HIM Bestselling author of over 35 Offerings, including Naming the Unnameable

michael Garrigan
HE/HIM Award-winning author of Robbing the Pillars and River, Amen

Caitlin Garvey
SHE/HER Author of The Mourning Report

Emily Grandy
SHE/HER Award-winning author of Michikusa House

Iris Graville
SHE/HER Award-winning author of Hiking Naked

Kip Robinson Greenthal
SHE/HER Award-winning author of Shoal Water

Tyler Hurula
SHE/THEY Author of Too Pretty for Plain Coffee

Beth Jacobs
SHE/HER Award-winning poet of Long Shadows of Practice

Andrew Jarvis
HE/HIM Award-winning Poet of Landslide, The Strait and Blood Moon

Mubanga Kalimamukwento
SHE/HER Author of Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies

Father Thomas Keating
HE/HIM Bestselling author of Open Heart, Open Mind

Linda Flaherty Haltmaier
SHE/HER Award-winning author of Rolling Up the Sky and Poet Laureate of Andover, Mass.

Chris La Tray
HE/HIM Essayist, Stories from the Trail Anthology

David K. Leff
HE/HIM Award-winning author of numerous titles.

Joseph Little
HE/HIM Author of Letters from the Other Side of Silence

Frederick Livingston
HE/HIM Author of Trees are Bridges to the Sky

Derick Lugo
HE/HIM Essayist, Stories from the Trail Anthology

Mary Logue
SHE/HER New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning poet of Heartwood

Linda McGurk
SHE/HER Award-winning author of numerous titles.

Gwendolyn Morgan
SHE/HER Award-winning poet and Clark County Poet Laureate 2018-2020 in Washington State

Jeff Darren Muse
HE/HIM Author of Dear Park Ranger

Marilyn Nelson
SHE/HER A three-time finalist for the National Book Award

jose oseguera
HE/HIM Award-winning author of And This House is Only a Nest

Abigail Morgan Prout
SHE/HER Award-winning author of Walk Deep

Thomas Lloyd Qualls
HE/HIM Award-winning author of Painted Oxen

Theodore Richards
HE/HIM Author of Cosmosophia, The Great Re-imagining and more

Bruce Rettig
HE/HIM Award-winning author of Refraction

C.M. Rivers
HE/HIM Award-winning author of How to Carry Soup

Holly Scherer
SHE/HER Essayist, Stories from the Trail Anthology

Ana Maria Spagna
SHE/HER Essayist, Stories from the Trail Anthology

April Tierney
SHE/HER Author of Memory Keeper and Matter/Mother

Kashawn Taylor
HE/HIM Author of subhuma

Stephen Trimble
HE/HIM Award-winning author of The Mike File

River Maria Urke
SHE/HER Essayist, Stories from the Trail Antholog

Brooke Williams
HE/HIM Award-winning author of Mary Jane Wild: Two Walks and a Rant

Gary Whited
HE/HIM Award-winning author of Having Listened and Being There

Connor Wolfe
THEY/THEM Award-winning Poet & Founder, Wayfarer Books

Francesca G. Varela
SHE/HER Award-winning author of The Seas of Distant Stars, Call of the Sun Child and Listen

Wayfarer Books presently has offices in Abiquiu, New Mexico as well as Durango, Colorado. Wayfarer Books recognizes that our publishing house is situated on the ancestral lands of the Nuuchiu (Ute), Jicarilla Apache, Pueblos of New Mexico, Hopi Sinom (Hopi), and Diné (Navajo) Nations. We acknowledge the deep histories, enduring cultures, and ongoing presence of these Indigenous peoples, whose stewardship of the land predates colonization and continues today.