Rita Hanner-Ward

A former museum curator and media contributor, Rita Hanner-Ward grew up in Littleton, Colorado, and now resides in Arizona. She is a writer with many passions, dividing her time among creative pursuits, hospice volunteer work, clay hand-building, and caring for her loyal dog, Zorro. Writing under the pseudonym Kiva Wolfe, she published her debut suspense-adventure novel, "Red Flash", in 2005 and republished it independently in 2026. She has just released the sequel, "Tears of Iemanjá". Together, "Red Flash" and "Tears of Iemanjá" are the first and second books in the "Gemstone Provenance Legacy", a story of legacy, loss, desire, and redemption, and of the fire within every stone. She is currently writing on the third book in the series and a limited-series mystery. Her literary repertoire extends beyond novels and essays to poetry, where she explores themes of memory, grief, and redemption. The release of "Her Inconvenient Elegy: A Life in Fragments" and "Her Song of Sorrows: A Quiet Mourning in Verse", the first two installments of "Her Poetic Awakening Series", marks a significant milestone in her diverse and intriguing career.