Kate Cortez is a lifelong resident of New Mexico. She gained a degree in education from New Mexico State University and studied medieval history and the American West as a grad student at the University of New Mexico. Passionate about teaching, researching history, and writing, she is a teacher who is devoted to passing this love on to future generations.
She currently lives in San Mateo, New Mexico, and shares with her husband and son a love of all things western and the cowboy way of life.