Sandra Dallas is the author of "Alice's Tulips," a finalist for the Women Writing the West Willa Award and the Colorado Book Award; "Buster Midnight s Cafe"; "The Chili Queen; The Diary of Mattie Spenser," a finalist for the 1998 Western Writers of America Best Western Novel; "Tallgrass"; and "The Persian Pickle Club." She is the author of nine nonfiction books about the West, including "Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps" and "Sacred Paint," winner of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Wrangler Award.Nanette Simonds is the president of the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.They both live inDenver, Colorado. Povy Kendal Atchison is a photographer. She lives in Golden, Colorado."