Gretchen EickEick has 8 published books, 5 novels, an anthology, and two scholarly books, both or which won awards. She lived in various parts of the world and draws on her international work and life in her writing. A professional historian with foreign policy eperience, her books include Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72, They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastman's Story (Native American history and biography); novels Maybe Crossings, Dark Crossings, and the forthcoming Cora's Crossings; novels Where is Ana Amara? [previouly published as The Hard Verge) and The Set-Up: 1984, Britain's Biggest Drug Bust (Classified unti 2064); and The Death Project: An Anthology for the LIving. She frequently spends part of the year in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina and lives in the middle of the U.S, Read More Read Less