Abbigale Evans (she/they) is thru hiking the Appalachian Trail this year! They are an advocate for queer and transgender people getting outside, and will be fundraising for the Venture Out Project as they walk along. They also write strange poetry and someday aspire to be a creative writing professor. Seventies psychedelic and folk music inspires most of their writing, and they try to live their life with the same dirtbag hippie optimism as the Grateful Dead.

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