JoAnne Chitwood Nowack is a hospice nurse living in Oregon. She owns a registered Morgan mare named Easter, a registered quarter horse called Wahkena, and a crazy prankster Arabian/quarter horse named Joker. She is the author of A Horse Called Mayonnaise, A Horse Called Blackberry, A Horse Called Poppyseed, A Horse Called Tamarindo, and A Horse called Saskatoon.