Carolyn D. Wall is Senior Staff Writer for Persimmon Hill magazine, the publication of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. As Artist-in-Residence for the Oklahoma Arts Council, she has taught creative writing to more than 4,000 children in her home state of Oklahoma. She operates a national prison-writer program, and authored the only literary book written on the Oklahoma City bombing. Among her awards two Crème-de-la-Crème awards from the Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc. and one from the Kansas State Writers. Sweeping Up Glass is her debut novel.