Diane W. Keaster was raised on a ranch in central Montana. She now lives in Salmon, Idaho but goes home to the Montana ranch often. She graduated from Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, teaching High School Business after college. She has raised, trained, traded, team roped off of, used, and enjoyed horses her whole life. She now still enjoys her horses in between her writing, presenting self-publishing workshops, and making author visits in schools and libraries across the country.