Our Authors

Author of five books of poetry, Michael L. Johnson is the 1996 winner of a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. A native of Missouri and former resident of Texas and California, he is a professor of English at the University of Kansas.

Don Ian Smith is the author of five inspirational books, including his best-selling By the River of No Return. He retired from his last church in Boise, Idaho, after 43 years as a Methodist minister, and then moved back to the little city of Salmon, ID, the location of his first church. He also taught school, worked with juveniles in detention, represented a college, and owned and operated a small cattle ranch in Salmon, where he resided with his wife for the remainder of his days. Rev. Smith passed away in May 2007.

Naida West, Ph.D., lives with her husband on their little ranch in California’s “Gold Country.” The ranch lies alongside the Cosumnes River, a primary setting in her novels. More...