Ruthanne Johnson is an award winning journalist specializing in nature, profile, historical, and travel writing, especially on subjects in the western United States. In addition to freelancing, she researches and writes about animal welfare issues for All Animals Magazine, a bi-monthly publication of The Humane Society of the United States, and for their website at humanesociety.org.
During her life travels, she has been exposed to a great diversity of cultures–the exotic land of Turkey, where mosques, ancient ruins, and local artisan markets mingle with hookah shops, discothèques, and skin-clad beaches; the close-kint community of "cruising" sailors, whose rough hands and salty demeanors reflect the life of perpetually sailing from port to port; east African villages, where villagers use celery strands to floss their teeth and everyone is an entrepeneur or else they go hungry; and the American West, where places like Flo's Diner really do exist and farmers still harness the prairie with ploughs and dirt roads.
Ruthanne graduated Magna Cum Laude from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a BA in English and American West History, and has been published in All Animals, Animal Sheltering, The Aurora Guide, Broomfield Enterprise, Boulder Magazine, Boulder County Home & Garden, Denver Urban Spectrum, Associated Massage & Bodywork, The Metropolitan, www.humanesociety.org, and www.10Best.com.
