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Desert Writing Prize Winner Revealed | Bend News
Alexa Hagerty, a writer and Stanford PhD holder, wins the High Desert Museum’s Waterston Desert Writing Prize for her haunting exploration of Chile’s Atacama Desert—where ancient memory, digital age, and colonial exploitation collide. Her piece, “Salt, Cloud, Ghost,” has already earned acclaim from The New Yorker and NYT Editors’ Choice. The museum’s director praises her alongside Joy Harjo for redefining nonfiction as a vessel for place and experience. Finalists for 2026 include C.J. Alvarez on the Chihuahuan Desert and Caprice Gray on our evolving relationship with deserts. Guest judge…
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