Patricia Raybon is the award-winning author of I Told the Mountain to Move and My First White Friend. A journalist by training, she has written essays on family and faith, which have been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, and USA Today; and have aired on National Public Radio. Patricia is also a regular contributor to Today's Christian Woman online magazine. She and her husband, Dan, are longtime residents of Colorado and have two grown daughters and five grandchildren.