Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, MARGARET WRINKLE is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and visual artist. Her award-winning documentary, broken\ground, about the racial divide in her historically conflicted hometown, was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition and was a winner of the Council on Foundations Film Festival. She has studied creative writing with Pinckney Benedict, Dennis Covington, Ann Cummins and AJ Verdelle, and traditional spiritual practices with Malidoma Somé. She has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and lives in rural New Mexico. Her debut novel, Wash, has been praised for bringing to life and connecting the worlds of slave and slave master, and dramatizing the collision and comingling of the Western world and African tradition in the life of the South.