sk Carol Ann and she will tell you she's a late bloomer. She had no idea she would be starting a second career as a writer after retiring from her first career, let alone writing about Native Americans. However, she will tell you that it is a love that grew out of her fascination with our westward expansion as a nation and because at twelve years old, she went to see Jeff Chandler play Cochise in the movie, BROKEN ARROW. She says at 12 she fell in love with a dead Jewish actor, who played a dead Indian chief. From then on, every book report or term paper in high school was on our early pioneers and the first real Americans.

Later, as an adult, she visited the very places she had studied and actually stayed on several reservations during summer vacations, making friends with Apaches, Navajos, Sioux and others, through the help of missionary friends living and working there.

Carol Ann has been published in CHARISMA and LITERARY-LIFT-OFF magazines. She also writes inspirational vignettes, verses for greeting cards, and stories for her grandchildren. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, she now lives on the east coast of Florida.