Born in Portland, Oregon, Cindy has lived all over the United States and spent five years in Misawa, Japan. She has visited Canada, the Philippines, Samoa, Hawaii, both the western and eastern Caribbean and New Zealand.Currently, she lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where Cheyenne Frontier Days is held each year. CFD's well-known rodeo is often referred to as the "Daddy of 'em all."Over the years, she has won or placed in various writing contests. She has also written for and edited numerous newsletters. Her non-fiction magazine articles have been featured in "True West" and "Wild West." She was a book critic for Storyteller Alley and is a freelance writer/editor.For the last 18 years, she has been a contributing editor and writer for Laramie County School District 1's Public Schools' Chronicle, which has a circulation of approximately 46,000 readers