Kate Siber

Kate Siber has worked as a pastry cook, a small-time farmer, a ski-rental tech, and a thankless-accounting drone, among other distinctive vocations, but the career she tried on and kept was writing. For the last eight years, Siber, a freelance writer and correspondent for Outside magazine, has traipsed the globe in search of stories, shooting blowguns with Amazonian tribes in Ecuador, tracking rhinos in South Africa, and diving with sharks in Fiji, among other dubious endeavors. Along the way, her work has appeared in Outside, National Geographic Traveler, Budget Travel, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and other publications. When stationary in Durango, Siber hikes, skis, runs, and backpacks. She is also a small-mammal owner, a pretty good cook, and a terrible (but enthusiastic) gardener.