Majka Burhardt

Majka Burhardt is a writer, climber, and AMGA Certified Rock Guide. As a lifelong adventurer, she has traveled and guided throughout the world by bike, canoe, and, more often than not, by hand and foot over rock and ice in the mountains.

Majka is the author of two books on Ethiopia and produced and started in the film Waypoint Namibia. Clearly, she’s a bit obsessed with Africa, where she first went to Ethiopia in search of a rare coffee. Unexplored sandstone towers kept her there and resulted in Vertical Ethiopia (February 2008), short-listed for the Banff Book Award. Her second book, Coffee Story: Ethiopia, will be released in fall of 2010. Not one to stick only to the page, in 2009, Majka produced and received an EPIC Emerging Artist Award nomination for Waypoint Namibia, now touring film festivals around the world.

Majka is a frequent contributor to national magazines including Men’s Health, Patagonia, Alpinist, Women’s Adventure, The Explorers Journal, and Climbing, where she is the voice behind the column “Whipped.” Majka’s blog, The Liminal Line, can be found on her website. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and received her BA in Anthropology from Princeton University.

Majka is based in Boulder, CO, somewhere on the road in her 1997 VW Eurovan, or traipsing around another country. You can always track her at www.majkaburhardt.com.