KRISSIE    MASON

Krissie Mason was raised a Minnesota farm girl in a sporting family and has always felt most alive in the wild, wide-open outdoors. She writes from Burnt Rock, her cabin on the North Shore of Lake Superior in the heart of the Superior National Forest. Her days often include paddling the Boundary Waters, working wood by hand, or skiing the miles of wilderness trails that surround her.

 

Krissie’s work explores field-to-fork traditions, outdoor places, and the enduring history of life in the field—with a focus on the people whose stories reflect them. From a retired Wisconsin game warden, to a falconer-architectural photographer, to an Alaskan lodge owner who spent a lifetime on fly-in-only waters, her stories are as much about human character as they are about sport, craft, food, or conservation.

 

Her work has appeared in Modern Huntsman, Outdoor Life, Alaska Magazine, Project Upland, Covey Rise, Canoe & Kayak, and American Angler, among others. She also experiments with historical photographic processes such as wet plate collodion, keeping old methods of memorializing people in the outdoors alive.

 

When not writing, she can often be found shaping wood, sketching new ideas for small-scale spaces, or tending to the details that make a place feel honest and handmade. Whether canoeing, carving, or sitting by a campfire with someone who has a story to tell, she’s drawn to the simple acts that tie people to the land—and to each other.