Marcia Hatfield Daudistel is co-author of Authentic Texas: People of the Big Bend and the Women of Smeltertown. She is also the editor of Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso and Literary El Paso and is an officer of the Texas Institute of Letters. She is the recipient of two Border Regional Library Awards. Marcia was selected as the recipient of the 2012 Literary Legacy Award from El Paso Community College and is a 2013 inductee into the El Paso Commission for Women Hall of Fame A longtime resident of El Paso, Texas, she now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.