Barbara Robidoux is the author of two books of poetry Waiting for Rain (2007) and Migrant Moon (2012). Her fiction has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, The Yellow Medicine Review, the Santa Fe Literary Review and numerous anthologies. She holds a BA from the University of New Hampshire, an MA from Vermont College and is currently a candidate for an MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she is currently at work on a novel. She is of Eastern Cherokee (Tsalagi), Italian and Scottish heritage. SWEETGRASS BURNING is her first collection of short stories.