Tanya D. Marsh is a graduate of Indiana University-Bloomington (B.A. in history and political science) and Harvard Law School. She practiced law in Indianapolis for ten years before joining the faculty at the Wake Forest University School of Law in 2010. Marsh developed and began teaching the first course on funeral and cemetery law in an American law school in 2013. She has been elected to the membership of the American Law Institute and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and is an active leader in the American Bar Association-Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section and the Association of American Law Schools. Marsh is nationally recognized for her work in the law of human… remains. She is the author of articles on the subject that have been published in the Wake Forest Law Review, the Real Property Trust and Estate Law Journal, and The Huffington Post. Marsh is the author of the first treatise on U.S. funeral and cemetery law since 1950-The Law of Human Remains (2015).
DANIEL GIBSON has worked as a freelance writer and editor for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Cowboys & Indians. He served as editor of Native Peoples magazine for 12 years and as a columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.