Sharon Cairns Mann started writing professionally in 1978 and has written hundreds of nonfiction articles. She is the president and owner of Savant Publishing, Inc., which she started in 1987. Her fiction work has appeared in juried anthologies. Mother of Exiles won the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s (RMFW) Colorado Gold Contest for General Fiction in 2004 and Honorable Mention in the Abilene Writer’s Guild contest in 2004.