Kathleen Gear began writing full-time in 1986 and has over one hundred non-fiction publications in the fields of archaeology, history, writing, and buffalo conservation.

She has authored nine novels under her own name, and co-authored thirty-four international bestsellers with her husband, W. Michael Gear. Their books have been translated into twenty-one languages.

She and Michael live on a buffalo ranch in the Owl Creek Mountains Mountains of northern Wyoming.