DANA WILDSMITH is the author of a novel, Jumping, and an environmental memoir, Back to Abnormal: Surviving With An Old Farm in the New South, which was a finalist for Georgia Author of the Year. She is also the author of five collections of poetry. Wildsmith has served as Artist-in-Residence for Grand Canyon National Park and for Everglades National Park. She lives with her family on an old farm in north Georgia, and works as an English literacy instructor at Lanier Technical College. Her widely followed blog, www.danawildsmith.com/blog, focuses on the life of a working writer.