Jane Candia Coleman was born and raised near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing, but felt she had nothing to write about. She abandoned the East for the West, where her creativity truly came into its own. She has won two Spur Awards for short stories from Western Writers of America as well as three Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame for her contributions to Western fiction. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her author husband, G G Boyer and is the fiction mentor for Carlow University's limited residency MFA Program.