Minrose Gwin is the author of the novels The Queen of Palmyra and Promise, and a memoir, Wishing for Snow. Wearing another hat, she has written four other nonfiction books, including Remember Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement. She has taught as a professor at universities across the country, most recently the University of North Carolina, and started her writing career as a newspaper reporter. She lives in Austin, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico.