Hearts West (19 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chris Enss is an award-winning screen writer who has written for television, short subject films, live performances, and for the movies. She is the co-author (with JoAnn Chartier) of The Globe Pequot Press's
Love Untamed: True Romances Stories of the Old West
,
Gilded Girls: Women Entertainers of the Old West
, and
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon: Women Patriots and Soldiers of the Old West
and
The Cowboy and the Senorita
and
Happy Trails
(with Howard Kazanjian). Her research and writing reveals the funny, touching, exciting, and tragic stories of historical and contemporary times.

Enss has done everything from stand-up comedy to working as a stunt person at the Old Tucson Movie Studio. She learned the basics of writing for film and television at the University of Arizona, and she is currently working with
Return of the Jedi
producer Howard Kazanjian on the movie version of
The Cowboy and the Senorita
, their biography of western stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.