Johanna Garton

Johanna Garton began running on the dirt roads surrounding her family’s farmhouse in Wisconsin at age seven. She continued through college, where she competed for Syracuse University as a walk-on. Garton has pursued her love of endurance sports, running more than twenty marathons including five finishes at the Boston Marathon and in 2022 she trekked to Everest Base Camp. In addition to her newest book All in Stride: A Journey in Running, Courage, and the Search for the American Dream (Apr. 2), Garton has authored Awakening East, the story of the adoption of her two children from China and her family’s decision to move to China to live for one year to immerse the family in the culture, and Edge of the Map, which shares the story of American high altitude mountaineer Christine Boskoff, and is currently being developed into a feature film. Garton started her career as an immigration lawyer, then worked in nonprofit management and taught college. She is a sportswriter and a high school cross country coach. She lives in Denver with her husband and two children.