Emily Griffin Winfrey is a reference and local history librarian at the Crawfordsville District Public Library in Crawfordsville, Indiana. She received a bachelor's degree in communication from Wingate University in Wingate, North Carolina, and a master's degree in library and information science from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Society of Indiana Archivists. She has written local history articles for Montgomery County Memories and Wabash Magazine. She lives with her husband, Russell, in Montgomery County.