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Jo Ostgarden

@joozgrdn

Jo Ostgarden, a Minnesotan by birth, an Arizonan by education and Portlandia by default. A longtime writer/editor and magazine journalist, she’s working on an outdoors guide for women over 50.

“The house was a fawn-brown color with curved white interior walls and my dead grandmother’s purple velvet drapes still hanging from the curtain rods.

— Cally Carswell from "Drought, dread and family in the American Southwest" in High Country News

July 25, 2019