Connie Cronley is the author of three books of essays—Sometimes a Wheel Falls Off, Light and Variable, and Poke a Stick at It—and co-author with the late Edward Perkins of Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace. Most recently she authored A Life On Fire: Oklahoma's Kate Barnard, a biography of the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma. Cronley is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and lives in Tulsa.
