Celia Ryker
Author photo by Steven Nikola.
Celia Ryker’s first career was training horses, teaching and campaigning students on southeast Michigan’s local hunter jumper circuit. After thirty years she went back to school and switched to gardening and landscape design. When she began distance hiking, her husband said, “She got to H in the alphabet and stopped. She went from horses, to horticulture, to hiking.”
Beyond all of those, she writes. She has been writing all of her life and is now an author. Her first book, Walking Home, is a memoir about hiking Vermont’s Long Trail. The award-winning series of short stories are brought together by a difficult hike. Her second book, Augusta, won a 2023 Literary Titan Gold Book Award.
Celia and her husband Don live between Vermont and Michigan with their border collie, Flurry. Visit her website, celiaryker.com.
A coloring book for all ages featuring Big Guy, a retired show horse, with his horse and human friends from the middle grade novel Big Guy: A School Horse Story by Celia Ryker, illustrated by Kathy Connell.