Mark L. Redmond taught high school English for 28 years in South Bend, Indiana. He has published over 25 short stories and articles, a six-book middle grade fiction series (The Adventures of Arty Anderson), a collection of short stories (Five for the Trail), three western novels for more mature readers (Bounty Hunter Nate Landry: Major Issues, Bounty Hunter Nate Landry: Family Fury, Bounty Hunter Nate Landry: Dust Devil), and the first book in another middle grade fiction series (The Adventures of the Box M Gang). A member of Western Writers of America, Western Fictioneers, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, American Christian Fiction Writers, and the Single Action Shooting Society, Redmond has been studying the West through reading and travel for most of his life. Mark and his wife Susie currently live in Arizona, where he has begun to write full time and is working on the second Box M Gang book.