Ginger Gaffney received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, earning top honor in Creative Non-fiction. Chapters from her new book, Half Broke (W.W. Norton, 2020), have been published in Tin House, The Utne Reader, Witness Magazine, and other venues. She has received writing fellowships from Tin House, Writers at Work, and Corporeal Writing. She has lived and worked as a horse trainer in northern New Mexico for over twenty years.