Ron MitchellRon Mitchell grew up in a steel mill village along the Ohio River in the Appalachian foothills. His wide-ranging life experiences have provided him with material for Broken Collar, his first novel. Ron�s fiction presents painfully real people in honet settings. He draws from work as a young man in a steel mill and decades as a supervisor of adult probation officers in the Arizona criminal justice system. He also drawn from his prior service as a Eucharist minister for the Catholic Church and his experience training boxers and peace officers. His journeys, from riding thousands of miles on his Harley-Davidson to traveling untold miles to the far reaches of the world, contributed even more to his understanding of man�s struggle for redemption. His travel articles, profiles, and essays have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers. He has degrees from Kent State University and the University of Dayton. The author lives with his wife Marilynn in Phoenix, AZ when they are not traveling the world. Read More Read Less