Lynn Horton

Whether chugging down the Amazon in a skiff or sailing up the Nile in a dahabiya, sweeping above the Serengeti Plain in a hot-air balloon or clinging to a camel in the Sahara Desert or Judean Wilderness, Lynn Horton vigorously explores the world. 

After a fulfilling career in advertising, Horton’s love for learning led to two graduate degrees, but her children are her greatest achievement. They stood with her as teenagers at an archaeological site in Israel while heavy artillery rumbled in Syria, machine-gun fire erupted in Lebanon, and an Israeli Air Force, camo-painted aircraft pierced the clouds. That moment—and the conflict it triggered between wanting to learn more and needing to protect those she loved—led Horton to draft her first full-length manuscript. 

A longtime member of the Explorers Club, Horton has called the Colorado Rockies home for twenty years. She fly-fishes, hunts upland game birds, forages for mushrooms, spoils her grandchildren and other people’s pets (before sending them home), and supports charities serving women and children.