Maggie Slepian (she/her) is an outdoors and fitness writer with a focus on the intersection of backcountry recreation, culture, and mental health. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Women’s Health, Outside, Huffington Post, Backpacker, Runner’s World, and more. When she isn’t backpacking, bikepacking, traveling, or dragging herself to the gym, she’s probably dressing her cat up in tiny replicas of human clothing or plugging into her own essay project on Substack.
