Blair Braverman is a writer and adventurer. She's a contributing editor for
Outside, a long-distance dogsledder, and bestselling author, most recently, of
Small Game and
Dogs on the Trail. She's completed some of the toughest dogsled races in the world, including the Iditarod, the Kobuk 440, and the Canadian Challenge.
Blair’s a contributor to
The New York Times,
Vogue,
Esquire,
This American Life, and elsewhere. She recently hosted the BBC Radio 4 show
Animal and is survival correspondent for the podcast
You're Wrong About. She's spoken about resilience in the wilderness for companies including Microsoft and Google.
Her favorite pieces she’s written for
Outside are about
competing on the Discovery show Naked and Afraid, being a woman
alone in the woods,
learning to write, and mischievous
sled dog Blowhole.