Four Corners Editor

Ken Wright

Writer, father; came West from Boston to ski bum for a season in 1983, and forgot to go back. Or get a real job.

Ken Wright came West from Boston to ski bum for a season in 1983, and forgot to go back. Or get a real job. He now lives in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains with his wife, Sarah, and their two children, Webb, 13, and Anna, 11. Ken is a free-lance writer and author, and a contributing editor and columnist for Inside/Outside Southwest Magazine. His essays have also been included in several anthologies and collected in two books: A Wilder Life: Essays from Home, and Why I’m Against it All. Ken’s writing takes readers on philosophical and often humorous wanderings across the Four Corners country and into the lifestyle living there requires. As a self-described "Monkey Wrench Dad," his writing also reflects upon the value of the open spaces this place offers children – "places to create the people who will create the world" – while ranting against the forces that would plunder the wild places and plow under the wild lifestyles future generations will need even more than we do now.