James Jennings is a writer and trial lawyer who lives with his wife, Vicky, in Edmond, Oklahoma. He is a fifth-generation Oklahoman and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, descended from tribal chiefs, warriors, horse breeders, scholars, judges, and men of cloth. He studied Latin American history and politics at Universidad Iboamericana in Mexico City as an undergraduate and fell in love with Mexico's people and history. He has traveled throughout the country and seen the poverty in Chiapas, the site of the Zapatista uprising and the setting of Mirador.