Sally Gwylan was born in Texas and raised all over the South. She now resides in New Mexico in a small, handmade, off-the-grid house a half hour west of Albuquerque, where the wind blows more often than not. A graduate of the 1985 Clarion Writer's Workshop, Ms. Gwylan works part-time at a law firm to allow time for writing, singing, gardening, and building stuff.