KT Thompson holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Davis, and is the author of Blanket (Bloomsbury, 2018) and essays in Tin House, Social Text, Avidly, and The Atlantic. KT is a research fellow at the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies in Pine Ridge South Dakota, Associate Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, and Editor of Creative Nonfiction for the journal Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
ATV use has soared since the pandemic started. But this new off-roading trend also rehearses familiar myths about the American west and American freedom.