“Unearthing Resilience: Amanda K. Jaros’s Epic Journey Along the Appalachian Trail Reveals Life Lessons Beyond the Trek”
Writers who have been told to trust their readers should move In My Boots: A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the Appalachian Trail to the top of their pile. Jaros not only tells us about developing self-trust — she invites us to lace up our own boots and cultivate it within our own journey.
Meet the Contributor
Amanda Marie Gipson is a creative writer from Northern Appalachia with a background in community-based agricultural education. She earned her MFA from Wilkes University in 2023 and also holds an M.Agr from Colorado State University. She now facilitates storytelling workshops in rural and agricultural communities to promote resilience, wellbeing, and community engagement. When not working on a memoir-in-letters to her beloved Labrador, Amanda also serves as the fiction editor for Northern Appalachian Review. Her writing has recently appeared in Artium: A Journal of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry, and The Disruptive Quarterly.
