Tucson writer Susan Cummins Miller, a former field geologist and college instructor, is the author of the novels Death Assemblage, Detachment Fault, Quarry, Hoodoo, Fracture, and Chasm. She compiled and edited the anthology A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922, and her award-winning poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Finishing Line Press recently released her chapbook of poems, Making Silent Stones Sing.