MEET THE AUTHORS

Cleo Lorette
and
Greta Manville

CLEO LORETTE, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, married a cowboy, and she and Ray operated a cattle ranch near Litchfield Park, Arizona, for many years. She claims she has never met a horse she could trust. The mother of three children, Cleo has published numerous magazine articles on subjects ranging from health and fitness to horsemanship and family relations. After earning her bachelor's degree in public programs (journalism) at Arizona State University, she taught creative writing at two Phoenix-area community colleges. She is presently working on a historical novel about an Italian woman emigrant in the early 20th century, The Devil's Leavings, which placed first in the Unpublished Novel Category of the 2001 Arizona Authors Association literary contest.

GRETA MANVILLE was born in Clarinda, Iowa, studied journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and earned bachelor and master's degrees in English at San José State University. Now residing in Arizona, she writes mystery novels and won first place in the Suspense/Thriller category of the Authorlink 2000 New Author Awards Competition for Death Key. She belongs to Arizona Authors Association, and West Valley Authors Association.

Greta was the recipient of a John Steinbeck Fellowship at San José State University for the 2002-2003 academic year. Her research project encompassed completion of an annotated secondary bibliography of Steinbeck criticism and related material, begun during her graduate studies at the UniversGreta is the official bibliographer for Steinbeck Review, a journal published semi-annually by San Jose State University.ity, and while she was employed as Graduate Assistant to Martha Heasley Cox, Professor Emerita and founder of the University's Steinbeck Research Center, now named for Professor Cox. Greta is the bibliographer for Steinbeck Review, a journal published semi-annually by San Jose State University.