River Selby is a former firefighter, writer, and teacher.

Their memoir, HOTSHOT, is forthcoming on August 12, 2025.

They have a newsletter with over 3,500 subscribers. It’s called Navel Gazing. River also works as a freelance writer, helping businesses and individuals with social media, copywriting, and promotional writing and graphics. They have worked with tech companies, environmental nonprofits, and wellness companies.

Their work has been published in Bellevue Literary Review, the New Ohio Review, Slate, High Country News, Tricycle Buddhist Review, and Bitch, amongst others. In 2017 they won Boulevard’s short story contest.

Read their two newsletters: WILDERNESS and NAVEL GAZING.

River holds an MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Syracuse University. They have traveled to Nepal to study Vipassana meditation, Czechia for a Fulbright, Central America for backpacking and many places in between.

They are currently pursuing their PhD in literature and nonfiction.

River has 500 hours of yoga teacher training and teaches restorative, rehabilitative, somatic and yoga nidra movement and meditation, specifically for folks in marginalized bodies.

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