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Suanne Schafer, born in West Texas at the height of the Cold War, finds it ironic that grade school drills for tornadoes & nuclear war were the same: hide beneath your desk & kiss your rear-end goodbye. Now a retired family-practice physician whose only child has fledged the nest, her pioneer ancestors & world travels fuel her imagination. She completed the Stanford University Creative Writing program certification. Her short works have been featured in print and on-line magazines (Bête Noire; Brain, Child; Empty Sink Publishing; and Three Line Poetry) and anthologies. Her debut women’s fiction novel, A Different Kind of Fire, explores the life of Ruby Schmidt, a nineteenth century artist who escapes—and returns—to West Texas. Her next book, Hunting the Devil, explores the heartbreak & healing of an American physician caught up in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. You can follow on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon, Pinterest, & Instagram.