Bonnie Dodge is the author of several books including WAITING, which was named one of Idaho’s Top Ten 2014 fiction by the Idaho Author Awards. She is also author of the essay collection MIRACLES IN THE DESERT about Twin Falls, Idaho, and author of the coming-of-age novel, GOLDIE’S DAUGHTER about a young girl growing up in a gold mine camp in Idaho. Many of her short stories, poems, and essays have won awards, but her passion is women’s fiction. When she isn’t writing, she is reading or working in her garden near the Oregon coast.