ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alan Hafer has a doctorate in education from the University of Colorado. Besides being a former school superintendent, Hafer served as Executive Director of Historic Boulder, a nonprofit dedicated to historical preservation. He has been a legislative liaison, a teacher, an assistant principal and has taught American History and Educational Administrative courses at the university level.

Now working as a full-time writer, his book, Prisoners of the Paradigm, a nonfiction book about educational reform, became available in 2000. His first novel, Secrets of the North Table, a story of pioneer Nebraska came out in 2005. He is working with Sandy Sauser, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe on a nonfiction book about unsolved murders on the Pine Ridge reservation.

Before ending his first career and going straight, (something he may always regret) Hafer worked as a Ski Patroller at the Keystone and Copper Mountain Ski Areas in Colorado. He received an honorary number from the National Ski Patrol System, was the leader of the Keystone Patrol, and the trainer of the Copper Mountain Patrol. He still skis too fast, as attested by a dislocated shoulder in the back bowls of Vail in March of 2008.