Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.

Writing background
In addition to her books Wild Tiny Beautiful Things and Torch Strayed has publiCheryl Strayedd essays in various magazines including The Washington Post Magazine The New York Times Magazine Vogue Allure The Missouri Review and The Sun Magazine. In October 2012 "Torch" was re-issued by Vintage Books with a new introduction by Strayed. ISBN 978-0307949332
Strayed Cheryl (2012).

Knopf on March 20 2012 and has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 2010 Strayed began writing the "Dear Sugar" advice column for the literary web site The Rumpus. Cheryl Strayed (born September 17 1968) is an American memoirist novelist and essayist.