Carmen Peone is an award-winning author who lives in Northeast Washington, on the Colville Confederated Indian Reservation, since 1988 with Joe, her tribal member husband, gleaning cultural knowledge from family and friends. She had worked with the late tribal elder, Marguerite Ensminger, for three years learning the Arrow Lakes-Sinyekst- Language and various cultural traditions and legends. She enjoys her horses and competing in Mountain Trail Competitions. With a degree in psychology, the thought of writing never entered her mind, until she married her husband and they moved to the reservation after college. She came to love the people and their heritage and wanted to create a legacy for her family.