Look and Listen

Biography

A native of Northwest Ohio, Kathleen Ewing freelanced as a writer while she raised, trained and barrel raced Quarter horses for twenty years.

"My brother (professional artist Douglas Miley) taught me how to write when I was four," she says. "It was his way of keeping me out of his oil paint set."

Aside from the common hobbies of reading, photography and rock hounding, Kathleen has raced sports cars and dragsters, gone ice-sailing and jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. "With two big brothers, I had to be a tomboy. I played basketball, baseball, tennis, football. I was a runner, too, a real adrenaline junkie," she admits. "But horses were my grand passion. Still are."

When she moved to Prescott in 1977, she became first a machinist, then a plant manager and a manufacturing engineer in the aerospace industry. That career ended abruptly when the world tilted on its axis on 9/11/2001. "I was out of work for ten months. So I used the downtime to get back to my writing."

Her article, A Pair of Nothings, appeared in the anthology A Cup of Comfort for Teachers and A Cup of Comfort Favorites. She spent a year and a half as a feature writer for the regional Connection Magazine. "I wrote about horse trainers, mayors and the local zoo. A flight school, a truck farm and a Christmas light display. A horse rescue shelter, poison-proofing pets and what to do if you are told to evacuate your home at once."

A widow with two grown children, she is a member of Professional Writers of Prescott. She currently lives in Prescott Valley, her base camp for hiking, horseback riding, target shooting and four-wheeling in Arizona's backcountry.

Inspiration

My brother has always been my greatest inspiration. He's a fantastic "romantic realism" artist. Just being around him makes me want to create something.