“E.W. Cole is easily the next great writer in the western genre. He has a keen eye and a unique, strong voice for the bygone days of the old west that is rarely seen in new writers today. It is not an unfathomable stretch to consider him a future Elmer Kelton,  Jack Schaefer, or Will James. Keep an eye on this young writer.”

—Jeffree Wyn Itrich, author of The Mercy Quilt

E.W. Cole lives and works on a horse farm in North Texas with his wife and children. His fiction draws from the stark traditions of the American West and from writers who treated the landscape not as a backdrop but as a moral ground. He writes toward the tension between violence and restraint, mercy and justice, believing the Western at its best can bear the full weight of literary inquiry. When he is not tending horses, chasing children, or fixing fence, he writes.