Libby B Bushell is an Alaskan author and the founder of HoWL, a wilderness expedition camp for kids based out of Homer, Alaska. She is a naturalist guide for Emerald Air Service, leading bear-viewing day trips to Katmai National Park in the summer.
“Homage to a Halibut Eye” was the first-place winner of The Moth Nature Writing Prize in 2023, published in the Irish Times on December 28, 2023.
Libby B earned a Bachelor’s degree in creative writing at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. She studied abroad in Wanaka, New Zealand and Avignon, France, where sprung her infatuation with steep, snowy slopes and her romance with language.
Libby loves laughing and dancing and skiing and climbing and learning and traveling and discussing ideas with her people. She likes getting into her feelings and exploring and being exhausted after a long day in the mountains and on the water.
She presently works seasonally as a wilderness guide so that she can spend most of her time doing that which gives her inner peace amidst this volatile and warming world—writing.
Libby B is currently revising her first novel, a work of literary fiction about wild women and glaciers, titled Salty.
-March, 2024