She is also the editor of two collections: The Pulse of the River: Colorado Writers Speak for the Endangered Cache la Poudre and Home Land: Ranching and a West that Works. Her third collection, The Gleaners: Eco-Essays on Recycling, Re-Use, and Living Lightly on the Land, is due out in Spring 2009.

Her work has also appeared in numerous magazines, including The Sun, Orion, High Country News, Colorado Review, 5280, and the book Comeback Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home and Social Issues Firsthand: The Environment.

She teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and does individual writing coaching. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Purdue University and is a frequent dumpster diver.

She lives in northern Colorado near the cattle ranch where she was raised. The photo above is of the foothills near her home.

Fiction

Sky Bridge
"From beginning to end, Sky Bridge grabs you by the heart and never lets you go."
--The Denver Post Hell's Bottom, Colorado
The Rocky Mountain News says that the book "displays the talent of a brilliant, new writer."
Booklist writes, "Pritchett excels at juxtaposing the sensuous with the severe, the rapturous with the repugnant."

Non-Fiction


In Pulse of the River, thirty Colorado writers and poets speak out for the endangered Cache la Poudre River. Royalties are being donated to the Colorado Water Trust. George Sibley says, "This is a book with all the blessed diversity of the Cache la Poudre itself, moving through all the wildlands and farmlands, uplands and flatlands of nature and human nature conjoined."

Home Land: Ranching and a West that Works is a collection that speaks to the growing need to protect our lands in the West. Of the book, Ed Marston adds, "Trust me: This is not a collection of essays. It is a string of pearls. This book throbs with the beating heart of the West." Royalties to be donated to the Colorado Cattleman's Ag Land Trust.