Anne Butler Montgomery has worked as a television sportscaster, newspaper and magazinewriter, teacher, author, and amateur sports official. She worked for five TV stations, includingESPN in Bristol, Connecticut, where she anchored the Emmy and ACE award-winningSportsCenter. She finished her on-camera broadcasting career with a two-year stint as thestudio host for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns. Montgomery was a freelance and/or staff reporter forsix publications, writing sports, features, movie reviews, and archeological pieces. Her novelsinclude Your Forgotten Sons, The Castle, A Light in the Desert, Wild Horses on the Salt, TheScent of Rain, and Wolf Catcher. Montgomery taught journalism and communications skills in aTitle I high school for 20 years and was an amateur sports official for four decades, a timeduring which she called baseball, ice hockey, soccer, and basketball games and served as a highschool football referee and crew chief. Montgomery is a foster mom to three sons and adaughter. When she can, she indulges in her passions: rock collecting, scuba diving, and playingher guitar. She splits her time between Phoenix, Arizona and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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