Gail Barton is a long-time artist and SF/fantasy fan who has both chaired MileHiCon and been director of the Denver Area Science Fiction Association, the latter several times. Her diverse interests include Roman history, hiking, Tolkien, traveling, horses, cats, gardening, and Fortean phenomenon. She has been a painter since she was 8 years old, and fannish since approximately 1969. She is married to James (Sourdough) Jackson, also a fan from Phoenix and Alaska.