Sarah Capdeville

Lead Nonfiction Editor

For five seasons, Sarah Capdeville proudly wore the title of wilderness ranger in the Rattlesnake, Welcome Creek, and Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness areas of Western and Central Montana. She is currently part of the editorial teams of The Hopper and The Changing Times. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA, and graduated from the University of Montana with a BS in Resource Conservation and a BA in Spanish. Her writing has been published in Orion, Fourth Genre, The Normal School, Flyway, and others. She was a finalist for the 2019 Montana Prize in Nonfiction, and is the winner of River Teeth's 2022 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize for her essay collection Aligning the Glacier's Ghost, published by the University of New Mexico Press in Spring 2024. Sarah lives in Missoula, Montana, with her partner, retired greyhound, and opinionated tortoiseshell cat, where she navigates chronic illness, goes on many slow hikes, and daydreams about the crosscut saw.