Bridget Crocker

BRIDGET CROCKER is a trailblazer in women’s empowerment within the outdoor industry. A leading whitewater rafting guide, she has led remote river expeditions down many of the world’s greatest river canyons in far-flung regions of Zambia, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, India, and the Western United States. She is the author of the memoir, THE RIVER'S DAUGHTER, which was an Indie Next and Library Reads Notable Nonfiction Pick and longlisted for the Reading the West Book Awards. Crocker is a contributing author to Lonely Planet guidebooks and its Travel Anthology and to The Best Women’s Travel Writing series from Travelers’ Tales. She worked as a writer for the outdoor clothing company Patagonia for nineteen years, and her work has been featured in magazines including Westways, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Trail Runner, Paddler, Outside, LitHub and People among others. She lives in Malibu, CA with her family.