I was raised in rural Virginia, I love horses and riding. My father taught me to read and love books. I read westerns avidly and love all the old fashioned ones. I also read history of course, and love the myth and imagery in the history of the settlement of the American west.

Honors graduate from Piedmont Va. Community College, Charlottesville, Va 1987, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va 1989. Candidate for Ph.D in History at Florida State University. My thesis is: The Early Development of the Florida Prison System: The Influence of Public opinion

Silver Creek is my first novel. I also write articles, mostly about parents in prison, as Anne Haw Holt. I write poetry about love and hate, protest, living in the country, Aztecs and other real people. I offer poetry and story readings, and present on Leadership, Grant Writing, Parents in Prison, "Women as Heroes" and "Building a Story"

Silver Creek
Six years ago John left home, swearing he would never return. But his father is in trouble. Their neighbor, Tim Hostetter was murdered. His riders are gone and Garrett cattle are grazing his range. One of Russ Blaine's riders was killed. Mason Garrett and Rafe Willis are pushing Blaine hard to sell Silver Creek. They need the water. Will Garrett kill to get it? On his way home, John shoots a bully in a poor town and is wounded escaping the posse. Watching for bushwhackers, Andrea Blaine finds John and helps him hide in Alec Gunnison's cabin. When his wound is healed, John joins Del Ketchum, cattleman turned deputy sheriff, to search for the real killers and try to clear his father's name. REVIEWS Richard A. Bartlett, Author of Great Surveys Of The American West says: "The author knows the land, horses, weaponry, terminology of ranchland people, and even the characters, so realistic do they seem. This Western is a cut above the average---a real page turner."

Avalon Books
Publisher, Westerns, Silver Creek by A.H.Holt ISBN# 0-8034-9600-1 Publication date--June 2003