Behind Mount Rushmore

by Darlene P. Campos

Behind Mount Rushmore follows the story of Nimo Thunderclap as he lives life on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

234 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 25, 2017

About the author

Darlene P. Campos earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and her BA in English with a medical studies minor from the University of Houston. During her time at UH, she won the Glass Mountain Award for Prose and the Sylvan N. Karchmer Fiction Prize. She is also a two-time Best of the Net finalist in both fiction and nonfiction categories, and the 2025 winner of the Encouragement Grant from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She has been featured in interviews by School Library Journal, Poets & Writers, and Book Riot. She is a co-founder of LatinxPitch, an online event for Latinx authors of children’s literature that helps them match with a literary agent or publisher for their work. She is Ecuadorian-American and lives in Houston, TX with her husband and their eight rescue cats.