Sharolyn Sievert had the prestigious honor of being awarded a Dog Writer's Assoc. of America Maxwell award in 2017. She has been active as a volunteer Search and Rescue K-9 handler since 2003, certifying multiple dogs in Search and Rescue disciplines of Area Search, Tracking, Human Remains Detection, and USAR Disaster. She is also active in Animal Assisted Therapy. Sharolyn was born in Tachikowa, Japan as an Air Force brat and spent much of her life adapting to new places and meeting new people as the daughter of a 20 year veteran of the military. Growing up with a dad who was an Eagle Scout, an avid outdoors-man, and hunter, the family outings were often spent hiking in the woods and vacations meant camping. Sharolyn's fictional books are gleaned from her own life as well as her experiences with her search dogs. While her K-9 Search novels are fiction, much of the SAR experiences are real, having happened to her or to her friends in SAR. Sharolyn not only has spent many years as a K-9 handler, she also is an instructor, teaching others about SAR, Search Management, and of also medical response for humans and pets.
