Sarah Priestman completed the French Camino in 2019 and will walk the Portuguese coastal route in 2022. Her essays have appeared in The Hudson Review, Entropy, Cutthroat Journal, Common Boundary, and The Washingtonian. Her work has been listed in America’s Best Essays, honored for Literary Excellence by the DC Commission on the Arts and by the Barry Lopez Award for Creative Nonfiction, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.