Catherine Hunter is announced as a finalist for Best Woman Writer of the 2016 High Plains Book Awards for her title After Light. Congratulations, Catherine!

BILLINGS, MONTANA - Thirty-seven books have been selected as finalists out of 160 submissions in eleven categories for the 10th annual High Plains Book Awards. Twenty-six different publishers from Canada and the US were represented in this year's competition. Of the 37 finalists, 12 are from Canada.

The High Plains Books Awards have been established to recognize regional authors and/or literary works which examine and reflect life on the High Plains including the states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.