C R Strahan

C R Strahan writes of conflict and controversy on the canvas of the American landscape, painting stories of family where money meets nature, cultures collide, and personal values are called into question. She often employs fiction in a 360-degree structure, where the entire environment—people, place, flora and fauna—each become characters in their own right. While the setting of Prairie Fire is recognizably eastern Montana, Blandus and all it contains will only be found between the covers of the book.

Her first novel The Roan Maverick, based on the history of Wyoming's Cattle War, resulted from her tenure as research assistant to the foremost authority on the subject and has received uncommon praise from the descendants of both sides of that historical insurrection.

Her second novel, Sleeping With Eagles, was written from the context of her years of living in Colorado's Eagle Valley and chronicles the modern life of the ranching Delaney family, who in the 1970s find themselves entering dilemma as Vail begins to boom and tourism threatens to overturn the agricultural economy they have spent five generations building.

In her novel Lucid Dreaming, Strahan explores the history of a contemporary Montana ranching family's genetic bloodline as well as their cosmic bloodline, and the mysterious connection between past-life encounters and ancestry.

Watercolor draws Past into Present and Spirit into Flesh in a fast-paced story of transformation in its simplest and most complex forms. All characters in the story learn on an individual level that transformation may come in the form of Shape Shifting or through a simple change of mind.

In Tango’s Mirror a world renowned actor faces the dilemma fame has dealt him: the secret of his art had been the ability to observe human interaction anonymously, thereby gaining insight into the human emotions on display in ordinary life—it had been his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall that made him famous, and fame had destroyed his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall.

Twelve years in the making, her new novel Prairie Fire explores the character of justice, focusing on the perverse dichotomy between poetic justice and legal justice through a bizarre incident in a young Montana town at the dawn of the Twentieth Century.

C R Strahan has eight years of higher education in Science & Humanities. She is descended from Farmers & Ranchers, Builders & Artists, and independent women ahead of their time. She has lived in the American West from New Mexico to the Pacific Northwest, with a quarter century in Colorado and near that in Montana. She majored in English at Colorado State University, Business Administration at Regis University, and Art at both Alma College and the University of Oregon.