Date: March 5th, 2026
Location: Timbermine Steakhouse
Time: 4:45pm- Doors open for VIP
5:45pm- Doors open for General
TFNU is proud to host acclaimed author and naturalist, Craig Childs as the speaker at our 2026 Author Dinner Event. This annual fundraising event for TFNU is one of our largest sources of operational revenue each year and we are thrilled to have Mr. Childs.
Craig Childs is a hopeless tracker of wonder who has written more than a dozen books involving the natural world. His narrative nonfiction and journalism have appeared in High Country News, The Atlantic, Outside, The New York Times, NPR, Radiolab, and he is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal magazine. He’s won the Orion Book Award, the Colorado Book Award, the Galen Rowell Art of Adventure Award, and three times he’s won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. Home for him is off-grid in the high desert of western Colorado near the Utah border.
Craig Childs has published more than a dozen books of adventure, wilderness, and science. He has won the Orion Book Award, the Galen Rowell Art of Adventure Award, the Spirit of the West Award for his body of work, and three times he's won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. He is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly, and his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Outside, and The New York Times, where he's been called "a modern-day desert father." He has a B.A. in Journalism from CU Boulder with a minor in Women's Studies, and an M.A. in Desert Studies from Prescott College in Arizona. He's taught graduate courses in writing at University of Montana and the MFA programs at University of Alaska and Southern New Hampshire University. He lives off-grid in southwest Colorado.
$150 - General Admission Tickets Include full meal & presentation
$250 - VIP Tickets Include full meal, presentation and 45 minute pre-event wine and appetizer social with Craig.
$1,500 - Full Table of 10 Includes 8 GA Tickets and 2 VIP Tickets at the same table
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