Michele Murray is an exploration geologist and Treasurer of the Denver Mining Club. She lives in South Park, Colorado with huzbun, dogs, cats and horses. She is a freelance writer / artist (www.alloneriverartworks.com) for outdoors journals and recently for pro-mining venues, such as http://www.mining.com/corpad/. Her articles have been published in the prestigious and unique journal, Mountain Gazette, as well as Discover the Outdoors, EQUUS, Fly Fishing World, Native People’s Magazine, New Tribal Dawn, The Aquarian, International Double Reed Society, and other literary journals. She also writes for http://www.coloradofishing.net/ and www.wyomingfishing.net, and is included in two anthologies: “Hell’s Half Mile: River Runners’ Tales of Hilarity and Misadventure,” published by Breakaway Books, 2004, and “Comeback Wolves: Western Writers Speak for Wolves in the Southern Rockies,” published by Johnson Books, 2005. She recently started writing a blog for InfoMine.com to give a voice to drillers, muckers and geos at mines all over the world. Michele is Pembina Clan of Ojibwe, of the Turtle Mountain Agency in North Dakota — home of her father (and part Scottish — which is a bad combination when combined with a shot of whiskey…)
