the photographer of The Eads Bridge(University of Missouri Press, 1979 and the Missouri Historical Society, 1999)

and Route 66: The Highway and Its People(University of Oklahoma Press, 1989).

She has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

She exhibits nationally.

Numerous corporate and museum collections hold her work.

She is the photographer/author of The Mississippi: A Visual Biography

due out from the University of Missouri Press in June 2009

She lives in Waterloo, Illinois,

close to the banks of the Mississippi,

not far from the Ozark Hills,

and in the midst of Illinois wheat filelds.