Susan Stoner, writing as S.L. Stoner, is a native Oregonian who worked, for many years, as a full time as a labor union lawyer. Like that of her series hero, Sage Adair, Stoner’s life has tended toward the adventurous. She’s worked in skid road bars, Las Vegas casinos, free clinics and as a prisoners’ advocate, psychology center videographer and federal judge’s intern. Besides living in Portland, Oregon, Susan has also lived in a forest lean-to, a Sikh home in Singapore, alongside an alligator-infested Louisiana bayou, inside a sweltering Las Vegas tent, in a camper atop a ’65 International pick-up truck as well as in a variety of more traditional abodes. She was a participant in Portland’s original neighborhood movement and has since been involved in a number of citizen activism efforts, like filing and winning a lawsuit to preserve Portland’s historical open reservoirs (one of those “win the battle, lose the war” experiences). She lives with her husband and two dogs in Southeast Portland when they are not traveling or hanging out in the great Cascade range forests. One of her passions is historical research, particularly that involving original source material.

Susan Stoner

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Alex “Icky” Dunn

The covers of seven Sage Adair books, Timber Beasts, Land Sharks, Dry Rot, Black Drop, Dead Line, The Mangle and Slow Burn are the work of Portland artist, illustrator and writer Alex “Icky” Dunn. The cover of the eighth book, Bitter Cry, carries on Icky’s style. He also created the cover for Michael Munk’s, Portland Red Guide, as well as numerous cd album covers for local bands and political graphics. At http://blackout-print.blogspot.com/ Icky briefly describes the creative process that led to the first Sage Adair cover. More of his work can be seen at http://www.justeeds.org/artists/icky_a/

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