Linda Sillitoe is a graduate of the University of Utah. As a Deseret News reporter, features editor at Utah Holiday, and a New York Times correspondent, she garnered several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and Associated Press. Her non-fiction includes Banking on the Hemingways, Salamander, Friendly Fire, and Welcoming the World. Her fiction includes Secrets Keep, Sideways to the Sun, and Windows on the Sea. She is a contributor to Bright Angels and Familiars, The Evening and the Morning, Greening Wheat, and The Wilderness of Faith. She has taught classes on several college campuses; co-produced the PBS-affiliated documentary, "Navajo and American"; and has been published in the Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere. She lives in Mesa, Arizona.