A long-time contributor to various publications, Ammi’s first book, All the Things is a welcome collection of her voice and humor. Here, you can find out how to access her stories and columns, as well as where to buy her new book. Meanwhile, she’s quietly hammering away at another book and her regular writing shenanigans between adventures in the mountains, building a new home on a new hilltop, and raising her family.
The Book: All the Things
The Spokesman Review
Out There Outdoors
After surviving the usual debacles of adulthood (marriage, taxes, divorce), Ammi Midstokke does what any sensible single mom would do: She purchases an off-grid fixer-upper perched on a granite hilltop in rural Idaho. Underprepared and overcaffeinated, she embarks upon a series of seemingly inadvisable activities from getting lost in the mountains after dark to dangling on a rope with a chainsaw to relationshipping with bearded woodsmen and falling in love.
In her hilarious yet sage debut essay collection, Midstokke demonstrates that battles with freeloading varmints, clogged stove pipes, childhood trauma, and one surprisingly aggressive boulder are unexpected, if not wonderfully entertaining, pathways to personal growth and joy. All the Things delivers the irreverent, fearless, and brilliant voice of a woman who laughs in the face of failure and soothes her wounds by splitting wood, often in her skivvies.
Purchase online at Latah Books, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and bookshop.org
Ammi has been a popular columnist for the Spokesman Review since 2014 with her column, Off the Grid, as well as a contributor to feature stories on topics ranging from saving small farms to traipsing through Scotland with her grandmother’s ashes.
Her stories can be read online at The Spokesman Review and by subscribing to this fine newspaper.
Since returning to a life in the mountains of Idaho in 2013, Ammi has been a regular contributor to Out There Outdoors. Whether writing about the best trails and the worst decisions, providing backcountry recipes, or discovering nuanced connections between nature and literature, her pieces promise to entertain.
Out There Outdoors can be found online and in print at a number of locations in the PNW .
Love your local bookstore? So do we…
A not-exhaustive list of local stores carrying Ammi’s book:
Sandpoint: Vanderford’s, Outdoor Experience, la Chic Boutique, Greasy Fingers
Spokane: Auntie’s, the Wishing Tree, 2nd Look Books, Atticus, Kizuri, From Here
Coeur d’Alene: The Well-Read Moose