An enrolled member of the Echota Cherokee tribe of Alabama, Linda-Raven Woods is a novelist and poet whose work is rooted in the music, folklore, and mythology of her native South. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Georgia College and State University. Recent publications include The Birmingham Arts Journal, Breathe, Sad Girl Diaries, and many others. She teaches writing and literature at Alabama A&M University and has been a Jingle dress dancer for over thirty years on the Southeastern powwow circuit. Favorite writers include Anne Rice, Louise Erdrich, Charlaine Harris, Sherman Alexie, Grady Hendrix, Stephen Graham Jones, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Stephen King, Joan Didion, Octavia Butler, Percival Everett and hundreds more whose words and worlds have filled her with wonder, magic, and possibility.