Buxbaum, Linda: - Linda Buxbaum earned a double major, studying history and English at the University of Montana, where she also studied creative writing. She spent twenty-two years in Butte, Montana, teaching at the local high school before moving onto a ranch in western Montana with her husband. She has written four novels, all of which have placed in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing contest in New Orleans. She is currently working on her fifth story.