Irene Rawlings

Irene Rawlings grew up in Detroit, went to school in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and moved to Colorado in the 1970s. She is the host of an award-winning radio program, "Focus," aired on the Clear Channel stations. She has been editor-in-chief of Mountain Living and Log & Timber Style magazines as well as group editorial director of Colorado Homes & Lifestyles.

She writes about food, art, travel, and the environment for Art & Antiques, Sunset, Style 1900, Town & Country, ForbesLife, The New York Times, Country Home, Country Living, Hemispheres, O, The Oprah Magazine, National Geographic Traveler and numerous inflight magazines.

Irene has also been art reviewer at the Denver Post, curator of the Anschutz Collection of Western Art and editor in chief of the now-shuttered (alas!) Country Home magazine.

She, along with her colleague Andrea Van Steenhouse, wrote a book on clotheslines (The Clothesline) published by Gibbs Smith in April 2002. Portable Houses, co-authored with Mary Abel, was published by Gibbs Smith in the spring of 2004. Sisters on the Fly was published by Andrews McMeel in the spring of 2010.

A launch party and old-fashioned "happening" for her upcoming book Sisters on the Fly Cook in Cast Iron (featuring the Dutch Oven Divas of the Desert) is planned for the spring of 2013 at The Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Ft. Worth, TX. More than 200 Sisters on the Fly and their colorful vintage trailers will attend. Fun!!

In her spare time, Irene enjoys fly fishing, looking for a vintage trailer to buy and fix up, collecting antique quilts and traveling by train--not necessarily in that order.