Brad Dimock joins the Festival in cooperation with Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA.

Brad Dimock was born in Ithaca, New York, and earned a BA from Prescott College in central Arizona. He proceeded to squander his education for more than 25 years as a commercial boatman in Grand Canyon and the rivers of Utah, Alaska, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. He is now a writer, river guide, and aspiring hermit living in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Brad has written for numerous magazines and has stories in several anthologies. He was one of three authors that collaborated on The Doing of the Thing; the Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom, which won the National Outdoor Book Award in 1998. His first solo work, Sunk Without a Sound: the Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde, Fretwater Press, 2001, also won the National Outdoor Book Award as well as the Arizona Highways Nonfiction Book Award. His newest work is The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River, Fretwater Press, 2007.

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