Deborah Swenson
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Deborah Swenson

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AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR 2021 CIBA FIRST PLACE WINNER for the Chatelaine Book Award for Romantic Fiction 2021 CIBA Semi-Finalist for the LARAMIE Book Awards for Best Americana & Western Fiction 2022 FINALIST in the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards for Best Romance and Best Book Cover 2024 Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards 2024 Finalist in the inaugural SPRUCE Award for Written in the Northwest 2024 First Place in the CIBA Chatelaine Award for Romantic Fiction 2024 First Place in the CIBA Book Cover Award for 'Till My Last Breath.' 2025 Finalist in the CIBA Book Cover Award for 'Till My Last Day' (winner to be announced 18Apr26) Deborah Swenson is an award-winning author of 'Till My Last Breath' and 'Till My Last Day', Books One and Two in the Desert Hills Trilogy. Book three, 'I Can Love You the Best', is due out in summer 2026. New England-born and Northwest-raised, she is at home writing from an island in the Pacific Northwest. Her love of writing Western fiction began years ago, spurred on by memories of watching the wonderful classic Western movies with her Dad. When she writes, the stories seem to evolve naturally, like a movie playing out in her mind, allowing her to fall in love with her characters. She was educated at local universities, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and serving as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner specializing in high-risk obstetrics. She had a lengthy and rewarding career that afforded her opportunities to write and publish nursing texts and articles and serve on an editorial advisory board for a nurse practitioner magazine. Deborah has taken college writing courses and screenwriting classes and has attended various writing conferences and workshops. It is through the encouragement of a dear friend that her dream of writing and being published has become a reality. What keeps her excited about writing is her Faith, Family, and Friends. When she’s not writing, she enjoys quilting, spinning fiber, photography, and reading. But most definitely, sitting by a fire with a hot cup of tea and reading a great Western romance completes her day. Deborah is an active member of Women Writing the West. She is currently on the Board of Directors and the Chair of the prestigious The WILLA Literary Award for 2026 and 2027. She is a member of Western Writers of America and will be part of an author panel at their 2026 convention in St. Louis. She is also a member of Women's Fiction Writers of America.
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