March 25, 2024

This episode was recorded Friday, February 23, 2024

Co-hosts: Kate Huber and Aubrey Streit Krug

Alison Turner, Defensible Spaces

This collection of short stories visits a small Colorado mountain town living with the constant possibility of wildfire. Preparation for and mitigation of wildfire is a metaphor in this narrative world — how much personal control do we have as interconnected social beings? — as much as a physical, environmental reality.

Alison Turner grew up in the mountains of Colorado, where she learned to endure large amounts ...