At her Blessings Farmhouse, Donna Stephens Choate, who writes as Donna L. Stephens, has the pleasure of looking out her window as she writes and observing the real West—cowboys rounding up steers for market, old silos and barns, fields of new-mown hay, sheep and cattle grazing on lush green acres of pastureland with the backdrop of the beautiful Ozark Mountains. She writes full-time after teaching high school and university English for several years. Donna has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and American and British Literature from Oklahoma State University. She also enjoys hiking and exploring, family vacations, portrait sketching, gardening, and playing classical music on her 1880’s piano.