About Rosemary
Rosemary Broome is a successful veterinarian based in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Northern California who has had a life filled with equine partnerships.
Not only was Rosemary one of the first to ride horseback from Mexico to Canada in one season, but later, she qualified to be part of the US 1992 Barcelona World Games Equestrian Endurance team.
Just Go: Hoofprints on the Pacific Crest Trail is her debut memoir conceived of as the first of a trilogy: A Horse Runs Through It.
Writing credits
I am a contributing author to Hughes & Shapiro’s Crossing Paths (2022)
Hoofprints and Footprints: A Mother and Daughter Story, first published in the Pacific Crest Trail Communicator Magazine (Spring 2016)
Saddle Action Magazine: “Star Trekking Through the Levi’s Ride and Tie”
Editor, California Quarterly Literary Magazine
My “path not taken” was to be a Science Writer
After receiving acceptance into the UC Berkeley Journalism School Masters in Science Writing, later that year I found an acceptance letter for the Class of 1984 UC Davis Veterinary School waiting in my mailbox. I decided I might be able to write later in life but would be unlikely to go to Veterinary School if I passed up this opportunity. My veterinary career followed an unusual path however. As a veterinary specialist, I worked as a research scientist primarily involved with infectious diseases that impact both people and animals such as rotavirus diarrhea and influenza. I worked in academia, as well as with biotechnology and global pharmaceutical companies.
