Born and raised in Queens, New York, Karen Harper came west at the urging of a friend. Looking down at the landscape of the Reno, Nevada...

Originally from New Jersey, Melissa Grisi was living in San Francisco and working at Ameoba Records when she got into listening to...

Twenty years ago, Jennifer Jungwirth was just wrapping up her college education when she got a call to interview for a teaching position...

Janis Commentz is a southern California native who grew up near the coast and began drawing and painting early in life. As the daughter...

Bobbi Fabian's first experience with desert was with the Warner Brothers Roadrunner cartoon. Growing up in Melbourne Australia, Bobbi...

Born and raised in the Tri-Cities area of Detroit, Michigan, Marylee 'Boo' McIntyre grew up gathering bushels of berries, apples,...

After 20 years in Los Angeles and a career in the film industry, Jody Curtis was guided to the Mojave desert in 2008. A seeker of deeper...

Photo: Laura Crane At the age of six, Rosa Ficara had her first experience with desert - her family had just moved to the desert from...

Born and raised in San Diego, Shaney Jo Darden's first experience with the desert was traveling to visit her grandparents who lived in...

Forty years ago, stifled by life in a small Michigan town, Jacqueline Guevara's vibrant, fun-loving mother loaded her 1972 Cadillac Coupe...