Bridget A. Lyons

Bridget A. Lyons is a writer, editor, artist, and explorer whose work focuses on appreciating the creativity and diversity of the natural world and increasing our species’ awareness of the creatures and landscapes with whom we share our planet. She currently resides in Santa Cruz, CA, where she makes a point of getting out to surf with sea otters, run through redwood forests, mountain bike with deer and turkeys, swim with sea lions, or simply walk the local wrack line with kelp, sanderlings, godwits, and gulls every day.

Before moving to the coast, Bridget lived in Teton Valley, ID where she communed with elk, moose, aspen, and fireweed. And before that, she was an itinerant outdoor education instructor living in tents all over the world. To fund her wandering and creative work, she’s done everything from teaching fifth grade, freshman composition, and yoga to making energy bars, catering, and pulling weeds in McMansion yards. These days, she’s lucky to work primarily with other writers, assisting them in shaping their ideas into manuscripts or their manuscripts into polished creations.

Bridget has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and an MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University, speaks Spanish and French, and can proudly fingerpick her way through “Blackbird,” “Helplessly Hoping,” and “Landslide.” She can’t dance to save her life, is flummoxed by most simple repairs, and is trying like crazy to talk only to people, animals, plants, algae, fungi, rocks, rivers, and oceans—and NOT to devices of any kind.

·       More about Bridget’s editing work.
·       Her ongoing travel and exploration blog (which recently had its 10-year anniversary!).
·       Her Instagram feed features species she’s encountering in her daily life.