About the author: Terri McIntyre taught writing and gifted classes for Navajo children for over twenty years. She also taught in Pakistan as a Peace Corps Volunteer. A graduate of the University of Arizona in Tucson, she received a degree in creative writing and literature and wrote documentary scripts for the College of Engineering and for KUAT-TV, as well as essays for the University Yearbook in 1969. A short story published as a play, "Theodore's Music," about a Navajo youth coping with ADHD, appeared in READ Magazine in November of 2001. Stronghold is her first novel. The story was inspired by her children when they asked for help in building their "forts" in the juniper trees close to their home and by the discovery of ancient ruins under their hometown community when surveys were made for the new high school. Ms. McIntyre lives with her family and the ravens in northeastern Arizona.
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