Author Carolyn Rohrbaugh enjoys living in Sutherland, Ia. where six generations of her family have grown up. She enjoys writing prose and poetry and has several poems in Lyrical, Iowa and Dust and Fire . Her short stories can be found in Knee by the Fourth of July, Amber Waves of Grain, and several other anthologies published by Jean Tennant. She has one other children’s book based on a true story about a mother whale who brought her baby into the Klamath, California River in 2011, Mama & Asha. She has written a novel about an immigrant who came to live near her home town of Sutherland in 1856, Dutch Fred Immigrant. Dutch Fred was one of the first settlers in O’Brien County, Iowa.