Celia Ryker

Celia Ryker’s first career was training horses, teaching and campaigning students on southeast Michigan’s local hunter jumper circuit. After thirty years she went back to school and switched to gardening and landscape design. When she began distance hiking her husband said, “She got to H in the alphabet and stopped. She went from horses, to horticulture, to hiking.” Beyond all of those, she writes. She has been writing all of her life and is now an author. Her first book Walking Home is a memoir about hiking Vermont’s Long Trail. It is a series of short stories brought together by a difficult hike. Celia and her husband Don live between Vermont and Michigan with their border collie, Flurry. Visit her website, celiaryker.com.