Janet Oakley is an awarding winning writer, historian and a practicing gardener. Her personal essays appear in the CUP of COMFORT series and CLOVER, A Literary Rag. Her articles on Washington State history are at Historylink.org and in the prestigious maritime history magazine, SEA CHEST. TREE SOLDIER, a novel set in a CCC camp in the Great Depression won the 2012 EPIC ebook award for historical fiction as well as a 2012 grand prize with Chanticleer Book Reviews. It is a EVERYBODY READS 2013 for the Lewis & Clark Valley community. She is a Humanities Washington speaker, talking on the Civilian Conservation Corps in the state. TIMBER ROSE, its prequel, came out of reading about women in the early 20th and her own hiking experience as a young woman in the White Mountains of NH and Hawaii. But not in skirts.