Cockrell, Elaine: - Elaine grew up amid wheat and sugar beet fields of her family\'s farm near Adrian, Oregon.
After graduating from Eastern Oregon University, Elaine taught literature and writing to middle and high school students for many years..
She lived in a multi-cultural world with Basque sheepherders, Mexican itinerant fieldhands, and Japanese-American families, most of whom settled there at the end of World War II.
Cockrell, Elaine: - Elaine grew up amid wheat and sugar beet fields of her family\'s farm near Adrian, Oregon