Rilla is the award-winning author of Kind of Kin, Fire in Beulah, Harpsong, and The Mercy Seat. Born in southeast Oklahoma, a fifth-generation descendant of southerners who settled in the Choctaw Nation in the 1800s, she moved to New York to pursue a career in acting and writing. In 2009, Rilla received an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Born in the U.S., Timothy has spent decades abroad, living in Ireland, London, and Spain. He is the author of Divine Magnetic Lands: A Journey in America and (with Kenneth Griffith) of Curious Journey: An Oral History of Ireland's Unfinished Revolution, as well as the novels Motherland, which won the David Higham award for the best first novel in 1989, and I Could Read the Sky, which won the Encore award for best second novel.
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