is a respected author and poet. She grew up near Pittsburgh, PA, but relocated to the western U.S. She has lived near Rodeo, in southwestern NM, and in Tucson. She has won two Spur Awards (for short fiction) and three Western Heritage Awards. Her works include Matchless (2003), Doc Holliday's Woman (1995), and Doc Holliday's Gone (two novellas, 2002), all biographical fiction; Tombstone Travesty: Allie Earp Remembers (2004) and I, Pearl Hart (2000), both historical fiction; Lost River, a western (2003); Mountain Time, a memoir (2003); and Borderlands: Western Stories (2002) and Moving On (Love Spell), both collections of short stories (1999). Ask for them at your local library or independent bookseller. Click here for a review of Borderlands by critic James Carvalho of the Tucson Weekly.
Her two collections of poetry, No Roof but Sky (1990) and The Red Drum (1995), are both published by High Plains Press. High Plains is a publisher located on a working cattle ranch in Wyoming. I think it's THE best source for Western fiction and poetry.
Coleman's poem "Plains Song: Santa Fe Trail, 1840" is listed in my poetry archives. Other of her poems can be found online at Lunarosity, an online journal of contemporary poetry and fiction. (Please note that Lunarosity's guidelines abide by copyright).
