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Brad Dimock was born in Ithaca, New York, and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Prescott College in central Arizona. He proceeded to squander his education for more than twenty-five years as a commercial boatman in Grand Canyon and the rivers of Utah, Alaska, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. He is now a writer, river guide, and aspiring hermit living in Flagstaff, Arizona.
He has written for numerous magazines and has stories in several
anthologies. He was one of three authors that collaborated on
The Doing of the Thing; the Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career
of Buzz Holmstrom, which won the National Outdoor Book Award
in 1998. Sunk Without a Sound is his first full length
book.
Dimock is always up to something.
To see current
projects, click here.
To see some cool Portuguese boats, click here
Brad Dimock was the Coverboy and Oral History subject in the Summer 2006 issue of Boatman's Quarterly Review.
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A few further writings by Brad Dimock
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| The Old Man and the Sea of Plastic On the changes in the sport of kayaking. |
| A River Guide Retires A sydicated piece on the decline of the river running career in Grand Canyon. (P.S. Dimock's retirement didn't last--the River lured him back.) |
| The Humblest Hero A piece on Buzz Holmstrom in Utah |
| Swimmers of the Century [note: for unknown reasons, the editor of these pieces contributed the misspelling of Georgie White's first name, as well dropping part of the title of David Lavender's "River Runners of the Grand Canyon." Other than that, Dimock takes credit for most of these short pieces on river swimmers.] |
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From 1989 to early 1997, Brad Dimock served as the editor of the Boatman's Quarterly Review, the journal of Grand Canyon River Guides. During that time he wrote many editorials and articles, in addition to his work editing, formatting, and publishing. Some of his editiorials, articles, and book reviews follow.
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| Missing the Point |
| Who Do We Work For? |
| Andrew |
| Old Days and New Guys |
| Why We're Here |
| No Policies |
| Temporal Wilderness |
| Shrines in a Holy Place |
| Bio Bio River obituary |
| Bessie Haley's Bohemian Friend |
| Glen Hyde's Pop |
| Book Reviews |
| Antidote for Tunnel Vision |
| Images of a Lost World |
| Time Below the Rim |
| All Her Rivers are Gone |
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Dimock has essays in the following anthologies:
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Living in the Runaway West: Partisan Views from Writers on the Range.
High Country News |
There's This River: Grand Canyon Boatman Stories edited by Christa Sadler
Red Lake Books, Box 1315, Flagstaff, AZ 86002
928/774/4923 |
The View From Here: Contemporary Essays by Flagstaff Authors
Red Lake Books, Box 1315, Flagstaff, AZ 86002
928/774/4923 |
Dimock spent eight years as editor of the Boatman's
Quarterly Review. For a biographical sketch of him by his successor,
Shane Murphy, click
here.
For more on Murphy, click
here
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