KRISTI WHEELER is a graduate of Macalester College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has scripted historical documentaries for the Minnesota Historical Society and the Science Museum of Minnesota as well as for several independent producers. A number of these films have won national and international awards and been broadcast on public television in the United States, England, Sweden and Ukraine. She is the co-producer of MEDICINE WHEEL: A JOURNEY OF HEALING. She can be reached at wheeler@macalester.edu