​Andrea Lani writes at the nexus of family and the natural world. She's the author of Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail and her work has recently appeared in Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Staff Anthology, Rooted 2: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction, Deep Wild, Stonecrop Review, and The Art of Everyone. She has degrees in human ecology and creative writing from College of the Atlantic and Stonecoast and is a former editor at Literary Mama. As a Maine Master Naturalist, she teaches nature writing and journaling workshops around Maine.