TIM TINGLE, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is a storyteller and writer. His collection of short stories Walking the Choctaw Road traces the history of the Choctaw Nation from the “Trail of Tears” until now. His illustrated book Crossing the Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom won numerous national awards, among them the 2008 American Indian Library Association Award for Best Picture Book. Tingle grew up in Pasadena, Texas.
LUIS ALBERTO URREA has written many books, including the national best-sellers The Hummingbird’s Daughter and The Devil’s Highway (a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist). He has also won the Kiriyama Prize for fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, and a Western States Book Award. Urrea lives with his family in the Chicago area, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
GEORGE WIER works and lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Sallie. He is a writer, researcher, historian, and speaker in the narrow yet rich field of Texas crime history, as well as an up-and-coming author of crime and adventure novels.
