Chris Santella is the author of more than 20 books, including 17 titles in the Fifty Places series. He is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Trout, and The Fly Fish Journal, and resides in Portland, Oregon. When he’s not writing, Santella can often be found swinging flies for steelhead on rivers around the Pacific Northwest or strumming guitar in his band, Catch & Release. DC Helmuth is an award-winning outdoors writer. Her first solo book, How to Suffer Outside, won the National Outdoor Book Award for Instruction, and her freelance humor and travel writing has been featured in Curbed, The Bold Italic, and Adventure Journal. She was born and raised in Northern California, and is currently trying to make friends with a seal in the Puget Sound.