Rebecca Lawton is an author whose passion is writing about the natural West.  Her book of essays on the river guiding life, Reading Water: Lessons from the River (Capital) was a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller and ForeWord Nature Book of the Year finalist. 

She received the Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in nonfiction and poetry.  

Rebecca’s experiences as a woman river guide on the Colorado and other Western rivers have been chronicled in several publications, including the periodical Womensports and the books Women and Wilderness (Sierra Club) and Breaking into the Current (University of Arizona). 

She has co-authored other works of nonfiction, most recently Write Free: Attracting the Creative Life (Beija Flor Press, 2008), with Jordan E. Rosenfeld.  Both authors help writers seek publication through their Write Free creative partnership.

Rebecca also works as a geologist and researcher.  She headed the team of geomorphologists, geographers, and ecologists whose multi-year study, Sonoma Creek Watershed Sediment Source Analysis, was the basis for the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board's Sediment TMDL, adopted in 2008.

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