Greg Mitchell is an Australian author, born in 1935,at Gloucester in the state of New South Wales. While working on big stations in the Outback, he started writing how-to articles for horse magazines. Eventually he contributed to publications in England and USA. He also started writing historical features for Australian newspapers. and wrote his first Black Horse Western in 2006. He now lives in Canberra. His interests are family, writing, horses, history and nature photography.