Arizona filmmaker turned author, Kiersten Dunbar Chace, is a globally recognized, award-winning storyteller whose work spans from post-apartheid South Africa to the deserts of the American Southwest. With more than two decades of experience documenting identity, resilience, and human rights, her films have been screened internationally and featured in academic and advocacy spaces, including the United Nations Human Rights Council. Her debut novel, She Who Holds the Wind, draws its spirit from years of cultural storytelling and her time filming and monitoring archaeological sites with the Arizona Site Steward Program, where landscape, memory, and presence quietly converge.