Cindy Wilson

Cindy Wilson is the author of The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81, which was awarded gold in the Midwest--Best Regional Non-Fiction category for the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (te IPPYs). It was also a 2020 finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards.

Cindy lives in southern Minnesota and is passionate about history. She also enjoys traveling, delving into architecture (even leading tours at a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Iowa), creating art quilts, reading, hiking, biking, and watching storms as a trained spotter for the National Weather Service. Her response to the pandemic was to learn to play the cello.