Jo Byrne is a horsewoman, writer, diesel technician and educator, armed with an MFA in Writing with a Fiction Concentration from Lindenwood University and a BA in English with a Creative Writing Concentration and a minor in Technical Communication from Texas Tech University as well as an AAS in Diesel Service Technology from South Plains College. She grew up with a classical education in parallel with practical education in agriculture and construction.

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Other areas of personal interest include digital art, building custom computer systems, welding, native plant land reclamation, reading and studying Ancient History, Classics, Philosophy and Psychology.

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She has had short fiction and non-fiction published in The Harbinger Journal of Art & Literature, dabbles in photography and digital art, is a Diesel Technician with multiple industry certifications and specializations in engines, fuel systems and electrical diagnostics. She has been showing horses in a variety of disciplines since 1999, as well as developing and managing her own breeding program since she acquired her first mare in 2006. 

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Her current writing is focused on completing her expansive dark fantasy, while her space opera waits in the wings for attention.