Liz Roadifer is an award-winning author, poet, columnist, and English teacher. Her work has been published in newspapers, magazines, and literary journals. She holds degrees in anthropology and social studies. Born and raised in New Jersey near New York City, she attended the University of Wyoming and fell in love with the wide-open sky, the high plains, the friendly, laid-back people of Wyoming, and a certain cowboy from a ranch near Sundance. She now lives in a small town outside of Cheyenne with her husband and enjoys spending time with her sons, daughter-in-law, and three rambunctious grandchildren.