Jo Deurbrouck
Jo is the author of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award winner, "Anything Worth Doing." The book tells the true story about the idyllic and tragic journeys of two whitewater adventurers on the last long free whitewater river in the lower 48 states.
"Bottom line, AWD is a love story," says Jo. "It's about two men who loved a river so much they couldn't be satisfied running it the ways thousands do every year. They had to find ways to make this river uniquely theirs."
The book also received an Idaho Book Award Honorable Mention. Jo has contributed to the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, Creative Nonfiction, Paddler Magazine, and others. She is a former whitewater raft guide, an obsessive researcher and a compulsive reviser. She holds a MA in English.
“Live what you love.”
“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.”
“We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.”