Jane Candia Coleman is a five-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, a three-time winner of the Western Heritage Award, a two-time winner of the Spur Award, and a two-time Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award finalist. She has published numerous novels, short fiction, poetry, and essay collections, as well as a book of creative nonfiction. In addition to teaching courses in both fiction and poetry, she founded the Women's Creative Writing Center at Carlow University in Pittsburgh.