About the Author
Jane Candia Coleman is the author of twenty works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and is the only women to have been awarded three Western Heritage “Wrangler”Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame – two for collections of poetry, “No Roof But Sky,” and “The Red Drum,” (High Plains Press) and for her collection of short fiction, “Stories From Mesa Country,” (University of Ohio Press). She has won two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America, her memoir, “Mountain Time,” was runner-up for the Willa Award from Women Writing the West in 2002, as was her historical novel, “Matchless,” in 2003. Her novel, “Tombstone Travesty: Allie Earp Remembers,” received the Willa Award for historical fiction in 2005. A five-time Pulitzer nominee, Coleman is presently fiction mentor in the MFA Program at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA. She lives and works in Tucson. Forthcoming, “The White Dove,” a collection of poetry in the voice of 17th Century Jesuit missionary, Eusebio Kino (High Plains Press, 2007.)
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