Award-winning author Cari Noga has been a professional journalist for twenty years. She is the author of Road Biking Michigan, a nonfiction book, as well as essays in Chicken Soup for the Wine Lover s Soul. Sparrow Migrations a semifinalist in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest is her first full-length work of fiction. She is also the author of Plover Pilgrimage, a short story that serves as a companion to Sparrow Migrations. The mother of a child with autism, she lives in northern Michigan with her family.