Debbie Gilliland grew up in rural southwest Iowa in a small town that she still calls home. She recently retired from twenty-eight years of working at her county’s public health office. While she is waiting for her husband to retire, she is enjoying many hours of unstructured time for writing. Her high school dream of publishing a book someday was realized when “To Comfort a King” was released in 2014. When she is not writing, she enjoys supporting her grandchildren at their academic and athletic events. If none of those are scheduled, she and her husband might just sneak off on their Gold Wing for a ride around Iowa’s beautiful landscape.