BARBARA SPENCER FOSTER was born in Mountainair, New Mexico, fifteen years after New Mexico was taken into the Union as a state. She was impressed by the stories of her pioneer grandparents, Benjamin and Sarah Spencer who homesteaded in the Manzano Mountains of New Mexico in 1887. Her first book, "Girl of the Manzanos," is a historical novel based on actual early statehood events. She is also the author of the novels "Pecos Queen" and "Fire in the Bosque" and the biography "Fremont F. Ellis: Last of Los Cinco Pintores of Santa Fe" with Bambi Ellis. Besides being a writer, Ms. Foster is a teacher, a singer, a mother, and a grandmother. She spends her time between Townsend, Montana, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
