Writer, geologist, author of Wilderness and the American Spirit, Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life, and A Woman's Guide to the Wild.
Joined February 2013
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29 Mar 2021
NEWS! I am honored to find Ground Truth among the finalists for the Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction! #books #WritingCommunity
29 Mar 2021
Announcing the Finalists for the 2021 Oregon Book Awards 🔖 35 titles across seven categories chosen by panels of out-of-state writers. Winners will be announced on a special episode of #LitArchiveProject on Sunday, May 2 at 7pm (Pacific) on @OPB Radio mailchi.mp/literary-arts/ann…
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The Northwest Review literary magazine is back!
Northwest Review was first published by the University of Oregon in 1957. The inaugural included Ken Kesey’s first publication. Read and donate to support human-generated writing at its best here: nwreview.org/
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For the June 2026 edition of Solid Ground, I reexamine the relationship between dinosaurs and birds. It’s a mind-bending rearrangement of our worldview and an evolutionary masterclass in surviving scorched-earth events.
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May 20
My forthcoming book, Buried: The Toxic Truth About Our Soil and Groundwater is available for preorder!
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May 10
Cover reveal! This month Solid Ground (Substack) has the big new book news and a look back at the lessons learned from one of my most popular pieces, story of the Applegate Trail:rubygonewild.substack.com/p/…
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Apr 12
On Arsenic and the Old West: A Sunday Dispatch from the High Desert open.substack.com/pub/rubygo…
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Celebrating ten years of writing the wild and getting people outside! Read about the long and winding road to the publication of an outdoor classic here: open.substack.com/pub/rubygo…
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Mar 15
Ten years of A Woman's Guide to the Wild!
More than 30,000 copies sold. This book has a life of its own. It's been spotted in National Park bookstores, feminist conferences in Poland, on lounge chairs along Lake Michigan, in the Wall Street Journal and everywhere books are sold.
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Mar 15
New dispatch from the largest Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world: open.substack.com/pub/rubygo…
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Feb 23
New from Solid Groud, a little bit of bravery to start your week: open.substack.com/pub/rubygo…
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Feb 17
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Jan 18
New from my Substack, Solid Ground: Stories of Earth and Everyday Life. Read, subscribe, and share!
The Affluence of Time open.substack.com/pub/rubygo…
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6 Dec 2025
I am still an independent writer working at the edge of human experience and the environment in a troubled and consequential time. Your support matters and makes my work possible. On Love Canal and the birth of American environmental regulation. rubygonewild.substack.com/p/…
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19 Oct 2025
Fire has a long history in Oregon. This week in Solid Ground I look at how an old burn impacted a generation of Oregonians. Read, share, and subscribe to support independent environmental storytelling: rubygonewild.substack.com/
#environment #wildfire #pnw
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6 Oct 2025
These days, in the world of writing, audience is everything; you can help me by subscribing to my Substack- Solid Ground: Stories of Earth and Everyday Life.
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25 Sep 2025
That's right! The blog is back and on Substack. This is the best possible time to become a patron of your favorite writers. Please consider subcribing. Thank you, friends, for reading all these years. On hope and irony, from where it all began:
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10 May 2025
I’ll be at Powell’s Cedar Hills on May 29 at 7 p.m. in conversation with @BrendanOMeara about The Front Runner, Steve Prefontaine, and the stories that move us. Join us! #StevePrefontaine #AuthorEvent #RubyMcConnell
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29 Mar 2025
Many thanks to @altajournal for supporting this piece! #truecrime #pnwlife #oregon
"Soon, violence crept up from the edges..."
Read more about how a charismatic cult leader and his flock took an Oregon county by storm: bit.ly/42lQH3J"
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3 Jan 2025
Congratulations @RubyGoneWild on making the @MsMagazine 2024 "Best of the Rest," a selective list of feminist books, with her most recent novel Wilderness and the American Spirit.
#FeministBooks #OvercupBooks
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2 Jan 2025
The Jazz Club on The Jazz Club, by Maya McConnell on Amazon Music, New Year, new music! music.amazon.com/albums/B0DR… #AmazonMusic
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5 Dec 2024
🚨 Breaking News: Updated Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake in California 📷
The earthquake near Petrolia, CA, was magnitude 7.3.
This is a major earthquake.
See map of tsunami warning for San Francisco, USA.
#Earthquake #California
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