Bio: Virginia Nosky, prize-winning author, poet and screenwriter, has lived in Arizona for over twenty years. Indian cultures have figured in several of her books. The state, its cities, mountains and mesas appear prominently in her work, though it is the desert she finds the most interesting?its topography and climate. ?The desert is a violent place; it bites and scratches, its searing heat and fierce storms kill. To go out at night in the summer, one feels its brooding presence, like the sea.? Virginia lives in Paradise Valley with her husband Richard and golden retriever Steerforth.