Corinne Platt is a writer living in the old mining town of Ophir, Colorado. For many years she was an English teacher at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado, and is now a freelance writer and runs a lecture series in the nearby town of Telluride. Meredith Ogilby is a freelance photographer and author whose images have been published extensively in Colorado. Her book A Life Well-Rooted: Women of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley, won the Caroline Bancroft Award for the advancement of Colorado History. She lives in Carbondale, Colorado.