Kate Harris is a writer and adventurer with a knack for getting lost. Her writing has been featured in The Walrus , Canadian Geographic , Sierra , and The Georgia Review , among other publications, and cited in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing .

A Rhodes scholar and Morehead-Cain scholar, she was named one of Canada’s top modern-day explorers and in 2012 won the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award.

She lives off-grid in a log cabin in Atlin, British Columbia. Lands of Lost Borders is her first book