Jo Lynne Kirkwood is a well known Storyteller and Cowboy Poet who grew up in the small northern Arizona town of Fredonia. Her great-grandfather was an original settler of the area, and her family has worked with livestock for generations. 

Jo’s poems reflect her intimate relationship with the land and the people of the Arizona Strip country, as well as an often tongue-in-cheek appreciation for daily agricultural life in central Utah, where she and her husband Michael now live. Jo's stories and poems have received numerous awards and have been published in multiple western magazines and anthologies.