Darcy Lipp-Acord, as the granddaughter of German-Russian immigrants, grew up in Timber Lake, South Dakota, on a farm worked by three generations of her family. She currently lives on a ranch with her husband, Shawn, and their six children near the Montana-Wyoming border. She won the Wyoming Arts Council’s Frank Nelson Doubleday Award for women writers, and her essays have appeared in several anthologies including Woven on the Wind.