Regan K. Smith

Regan K. Smith is a native Texan from way up in the Panhandle, where her warped sense of humor developed, along with a love of the open sky, music, reading, writing, language, and history. Okay, that's enough third person.

After graduating from West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M), I was one of the first 114 women commissioned through the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. For many years, my writing was pretty much confined to investigative and interrogation reports, intelligence analysis, operations orders and plans, Army and DoD counterintelligence policy, and song parodies. 28 years as an Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and officer (active and reserve) and 5 years as Deputy Director for Counterintelligence Policy, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Intelligence) were enough, so I retired and returned to Texas.

These days, I'm an editor and proofreader, a musician and avid reader, and finally, an author. I was published in “Check It Out: Tales of Canyon Lake”, “Ghosts of Malta”, "The Haunted Library Anthology: Volume 1 (The Haunted Libraries Anthologies)," "How Not to Shoot Fish and Other Deer That Got Away", "PinUp Noir 2," "Tales of the Oil Patch", and I have several more anthologies in my "to do" list. Now that I've had a taste of where my imagination can go, though, I just might finish that science fiction/fantasy/sorta kinda romance novel I've been messing with for years. May never get the romance part right -- I can't keep a straight face when writing it.

When not instigating havoc somewhere, I park happily on a hillside, with my beloved Spousal Unit (Yes, I am a Conehead fan, don't judge), a cat, whitetail deer, foxes, geckos, hummingbirds, barn swallows, mockingbirds and black-headed vultures. And tree frogs – way too many tree frogs.