Annette McGivney is an award-winning writer who has been Southwest Editor for Backpacker magazine since 1996 and a member of the Journalism faculty at Northern Arizona University since 2002.
Her latest book Pure Land was published in 2017 and explores the lives of the people affected by the 2006 murder of a Japanese tourist in the Grand Canyon. Pure Land is A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures and the Search for Heaven on Earth.