Gail BinklyGail Binkly (Essays) is a career writer, reporter, and editor. In 2023, she published her first novel, Trek of a Bird-Woman, an epic fantasy adventure. She has a master's degree in journalism from the Ohio State University and taught news-editorial witing for nine years at the University of Southern Colorado, now Colorado StateUniversity-Pueblo. She worked as a sportswriter at the Colorado Springs Gazette and as a reporter and managing editor at the Cortez Sentinel, now the Cortez Journal. For twenty years she published andedited a monthly newspaper, the Four Corners Free Press, in Cortez, Colorado. The Colorado Society of Professional Journalists honored her with its Keeper of the Flame lifetime achievement award in 2024. She lives with her husband and cats in Cortez, where she continues writing and reporting. Read More Read Less