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The Sugar Train is Becky Faber’s examination of the journey of life.  Using her rural background as the point where her journey began, she takes a big-picture approach to a variety of topics that one encounters. The preface refers to a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt that “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”  Often in life we are forced to make decisions and take actions that seem impossible.   We are also witnesses to the issues in others’ lives that may give us a broader view of how people manage their lives.  The Sugar Train comes from a perspective of realism and allows us to develop empathy for the parts of the journey that are difficult.

Becky Faber is the author of One Small Photo (2017). For almost three decades she has served as an associate editor/manuscript reader for Plainsongs (Hastings).

Becky holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English Education from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has written and presented on topics related to Willa Cather as well as the Great Plains. She has been involved as a board member for the Nebraska Center for the Book and the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association.

She is the recipient of the following awards: the 2024 Mari Sandoz Award for Significant Contribution to the Nebraska Book World, the 2021 Mildred Bennett Award for Exceptional Literary Contributions,  the 2021 Distinguished Alum in Education from the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and the 2017 Research and Publications Award from the American Association for Employment in Education.

She retired after a 40-year career in education and resides in Lincoln.