Gaydell Collier grew up on Long Island surrounded by books and fascinated by stoires--especially of horses and dogs--and dreaming of Wyoming. She moved West to attend the University of Wyoming and stayed to ranch and write for more than 40 years near Laramie and in the Black Hills near Sundance. In addition to her own widely published work, she is one of three co-editors for the Wind series of books: Leaning into the Wind, Woven on the Wind and Crazy Woman Creek. A recipient of the Governor's Arts Award, Collier is a retired county library director and a long-time member of Bear Lodge Writers and Wyoming Writers. She lives near Sundance, Wyoming.

Genres

Nonfiction

Poetry

Western

Wyoming Subjects

Titles

Crazy Woman Creek: Women rewrite the American West (2004). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN: 0618249338. Co-authors Nancy Curtis and Linda M Hasselstrom.

Woven on the Wind: Women write about friendship in the sagebrush West (2001). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN: 0395977088. Co-authors Nancy Curtis and Linda M Hasselstrom.

Leaning into the Wind: Women write from the heart of the West (1997). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN: 0395837383. Co-authors Nancy Curtis and Linda M Hasselstrom.