Gail Wilson KennaGail Wilson Kenna taught for college/university programs in Germany, Malaysia, Venezuela, Colombia, and the USA (Chapman College and American University). She now teaches for a Virginia adult institute (RILL) and serves as the creative nonfiction jude for San Francisco's Soul Keats Literary Competition. The author of three books (Along the Gold Rush Trail, The Face of the Avila, Beyond the Wall), Kenna was a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2012 fiction scholarship winner. She is the recipient of multiple writing awards and listed in Who's Who of American Women since 2008. In 2000 the Puffin Foundation honored Kenna for her work with North Americans incarcerated in Venezuelan prisons and funded her book, Beyond the Wall. Life as a military and State Department spouse/mother meant frequent moves and led to her first book for children. Read More Read Less