Word from the Wild

An author and writer specializing in nature and travel topics, Candice’s assignments have taken her as far as Alaska and the Yukon Quest dogsled race — and as close to her Wisconsin home as the national snow-sculpting competition in Lake Geneva. A former scriptwriter for Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, California, Candice gave up the big city life to return to her roots — and winter — in the Heartland. Her books include Great Wisconsin Winter Weekends (Trails Books, 2006), The Minnesota Almanac (Trails Books, 2008), and Beyond the Trees: Stories of Wisconsin Forests (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2011). She is a web columnist for several nature and ecotourism publications, such as Gaiam Life, Good Nature, and The Adventure Corner; and she is the editor of the e-book An Adventurous Nature: Tales from Natural Habitat Adventures (2011), a collection of worldwide nature, travel, and adventure stories.

Her fascination with animals began in first grade, when her family adopted a tiny Chihuahua. As she grew, so did her pets; and today, she’s rarely seen without one or two seventy-pound greyhounds by her side — unless you happen to catch her “out there,” searching for polar bears, grizzlies, or Spirit Bears.

Candice is currently working on her fifth book, Travel Wild Wisconsin, to be published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Visit her website at www.candiceandrews.com.