Raylene Hinz-Penner was born and raised in southwest Kansas near Liberal, with extended family and emotional roots in central Oklahoma. She attended Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, Kansas University in Lawrence and Wichita State University. For thirty years she lived in Newton, where she taught English at Bethel College for many years before moving to Topeka, Kansas, in 2003. She has published poems, essays, and prison arts collections as well as giving many public readings and addresses concerning literature’s impact on human life. She has special interest in the role of literature in building and nurturing community and bridging cultural boundaries; she has served as a scholar for the humanities, working on behalf of the Kansas Humanities Council. As a part of her interest in cross-cultural issues and “border themes,” she teaches literature courses in prison arts programs. Hinz-Penner is a lecturer in the English Department at Washburn University. Searchiong for Sacred Ground orders:
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