Bronwen Dickey, a regular contributor to The Oxford American and recipient of a 2009 Lowell Thomas Award and a 2009 MacDowell fellowship, has written for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Independent Weekly, Newsweek, and The New York Review of Books, among many other publications. Guest editor Simon Winchester selected her essay on North Georgia, “The Last Wild River," for Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Travel Writing 2009 and Dwight Garner from The New York Times Book Review called it “outstanding.”