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Paulette Jiles is an award-winning poet and memoirist. The idea for Enemy Women, her first novel, sprung from research she was conducting into her own family's past during the Civil War in the Ozarks. An avid horsewoman (who learned how to ride sidesaddle as part of the research for this novel), Jiles lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, and is currently at work on a new novel.

Her previous books are North Spirit (1995) and Cousins (1992).