Nancy Oswald is an author, speaker, and retired elementary teacher. She writes middle grade and young adult historical fiction. Since the publication of the hardcover edition of Nothing Here but Stones in 2004, Nancy has authored Hard Face Moon (Filter Press, 2008) and escue in Poverty Gulch (Filter Press, 2011). All three books are works of historical fiction set in the early days of Colorado. Nothing Here but Stones received the WILLA Literary Award from Women Writing the West in 2005. Nancy lives on a working cattle ranch in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado. Contact her for presentations, school visits, and signings through her website www.NancyOswald.com or by mailing info@FilterPressBooks.com.