Winner of the 2015 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Novel and the 2019 Spur Award for Short Fiction for The Medicine Robe, published in the Five Star anthology, Contention. Michael Zimmer is the author of nineteen novels, including The Poacher's Daughter, Charlie Red, The Rusted Sun, and Billy Pinto's War. His latest is Villa Lobos, published in March, 2020. Zimmer's work has been praised by Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, and the Historical Novel Society. City of Rocks, chosen by Booklist as a top ten Western novel for 2012, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award, and Rio Tinto, was a finalist for the Elmer Kelton Award from the Academy of Western Artist. Born in Indiana, and raised there and in Colorado, Zimmer now resides in Utah with his wife, Vanessa, and two dogs. His website is www.michael-zimmer.com.