Ruth W. Crocker is an author, editor, and playwright, and survived a career in healthcare management. Her essays have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Grace Magazine, O-Dark-Thirty, T.A.P.S. Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, anthologies, trade magazines, The Day newspaper, and elsewhere. Writing honors include a notable essay in Best American Essays, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and First Prize in the Saturday Evening Post’s “Tribute to the Troops” essay contest. Her memoir, Those Who Remain: Remembrance and Reunion After War, received the Benjamin Franklin Award, a Silver Medal from the Military Writers Society of America, and was presented to President Obama at the White House in 2014. Her book, People of Yellowstone, received Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award in 2017. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College and a PhD from the University of Connecticut. Presently, she is Managing Editor at Elm Grove Press and Interim Secretary for the MWSA board of directors. She is also a frequent speaker on the subjects of writing, editing, and memoir. She lives in Mystic, CT. Visit her website at: www.ruthwcrocker.com.