Theresa Nichols Schuster, whose first novel, We Are the Warriors, was named a 2015 USA Regional Excellence Book Award Finalist in Young Adult Fiction, Western Region, grew up exploring the rivers, hills and mountains outside Billings, Montana.

She shares her passion about the many facets of nature through her writing, where she also expresses her belief in the power of each person to learn and adapt, as well as the significance of each ones’ unique story, and that history comes alive with the accounts of real people—their joys, griefs, loves, losses and triumphs. After three decades of family life and work in Wolf Point on the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Reservation in northeast Montana, she moved to Bozeman, where she continues to enjoy the gifts of the outdoors, family, friends and a little clay-work on the side.

Her latest book, Brittle Silver, was featured in a review in the Montana Quarterly. It’s a time travel adventure set in contemporary Phillipsburg and the historic mining town of 1893 Granite, Montana, high in the Flint Creek Mountains. We spoke with Theresa Nichols Schuster at the Beyond the Deep End studio on July 18, 2023.

You can find her books at Barnes and Noble here in Bozeman, Wheatgrass Books in Livingston, and The House of Books in Billings, or Amazon and Barnes and Noble on-line. You can find out more or contact Theresa Nichols Schuster at her website, tnschuster.com.