Susan M. Ballard shares a small ranch in Pearce, Cochise County, Arizona with her husband, Brian. She is a member of the Cochise County Historical Society, the Old Pearce Preservation Association, the Society of Southwestern Authors and the Western Writers of America. Her work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been published in Chronicle of the Old West, Ghost Town Trail News, Out West, Voice in the Desert, War Journal and Wild West. Susan is a regular contributor to The Tombstone Times.