Gretchen Cassel EickAfter working for fourteen years on foreign and military policy on Capitol Hill, D.C., Eick moved to Kansas, earned a PhD in American Studies from the University of Kansas, and taught history at universities in the U.S. and Europe. She is the author f eight books, two nonfiction histories/biographies and six novels. Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-1972 (University of Illinois Press, 2001/2007/2023) won the Richard Wentworth Award, Hall Center Award, and the William Rockhill Nelson award. They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans' Story (University of Nevada Press, 2020) won the Coffin Award. Her six published novels are The Set Up, 1984, Finding Duncan, Maybe Crossings*, Dark Crossings*, and Where is Ana Amara? and Resistance!* (Resistance! is the third in her "Crossings" Series along with the two asterisked titles.) She teaches at Wichita State University, travels extensively, and writes alongside her husband, poet Michael Poage. Read More Read Less