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From the cover: “I had been fighting with a vague notion that something was until that week of confinement.” Photo by Lauren Brown. Author Russell Rowland
wrong with me for a couple of years, but I never made the connection to alcohol quit drinking a few years after his father addressed his own drinking problem.

ABOUT OUR STAFF WRITERS

Debbie Burke is the award-winning author of the Tawny Kathleen Mulroy is a freelance writer who specializes in grant
Lindholm Series of Thrillers with a Heart, available in ebook proposals for nonprofits. A former educator and childhood
or at Flathead Valley bookstores. She’s also a regular contrib- literacy program director, she has lived in California, north
utor to The Kill Zone, a crime writers’ website. Learn more at Idaho and South Carolina.
debbieburkewriter.com.
Mary Ann Reuter is a Boise-based health and lifestyle
Holly Endersby has been an award-winning outdoor writer writer whose interests include active aging, rural health, and
for 25 years, working in newspaper, magazines, TV, and web- the human-animal bond. You can reach her at ma.reuter@
based magazines. She enjoys horse packing in wilderness areas, yahoo.com.
fishing, hunting, snow and water sports, yoga, and hiking. She
was the first Conservation Director for Backcountry Hunters & Russell Rowland has published three novels, including In
Anglers. Open Spaces, as well as a non-fiction narrative, Fifty-Six
Counties. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Boston
Ken Levy is a retired community journalist and is now a University and currently lives in Billings, Mont., where he
freelance writer and photographer based in Boise. He can be teaches online workshops and consults with other writers. Visit
reached at [email protected]. www.russellrowland.com for more information.

Dianna Troyer is a freelance writer based in Pocatello, Idaho.
Jack McNeel was born and raised in Idaho. His working career She enjoys family and friends, skiing, riding horse, and hiking.
was spent with Idaho Fish and Game Department but after
retirement he launched a career as a free lance writer and
photographer for many publications, primarily about Native
American subjects, hunting, fishing, and travel. He now lives
in Hayden, Idaho. A multifaceted interest in Montana people and their commu-
nities keeps Suzanne Waring looking for topics to research in
old newspapers and books and people to interview. During the
busy times of her first career, Suzanne Waring wrote, “I raise
a garden no matter what.” That statement is still true during
her second career as a writer.

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