The winner of Regina’s Writing Award in 2011, Ryshia Kennie’s novels have taken her characters from the depression era prairies in her first book, *From the Dust*, across the globe and back again. There’s never a lack of places to set a story as the too long prairie winters occasionally find her with travel journal in hand seeking adventure on foreign shores. While facing off a Monitor Lizard before breakfast or running through the Kasbah chased by an enraged Water Carrier aren’t normal travel experiences and might never find a place in one of her stories, they do make great travel stories. When not collecting odd memories from around the world, she’s writing mainly romantic suspense and women’s fiction. For more, visit her website at http:/ryshiakennie.com. Source: [About the author](https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001JS91ES/about)