Morgan Sjogren is a 38-year-old environmental writer who has spent the last seven years living as a modern-day desert nomad, crafting a freelance journalism career while residing primarily in the remote wilderness of Utah's Canyon Country. (morgansjogren.com)

After growing up in Southern California suburbia and spending her twenties pursuing a marketing career, Morgan left her more conventional life at age 30 to live full-time in the back of a Jeep, sustaining herself on dumpster-dived ingredients and gas station burritos. For the past seven years, she has made the Colorado Plateau her home, spending much of her time in solitude among the sandstone canyons and mesas, with just a fraction of her year in actual cities. She explains how nature became her true home  ...