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Rita Hanner‑Ward is a former museum curator and media contributor. Colorado‑raised and now based in Arizona, she brings a wide range of passions to her creative life. When she isn’t writing, she can be found volunteering with hospice, hand‑building with clay, or caring for her loyal companion, Zorro. Under the pseudonym Kiva Wolfe, she writes international suspense-adventure thrillers in which crime, culture, and high-stakes intrigue collide worldwide. She published her debut novel, Red Flash, in 2005 and republished it independently in 2025. Having just completed Tears of Iemanjá, the sequel to Red Flash, she has begun writing the third and final book in the Gem Provenance Legacy series, The Price of Fire. A new mystery trilogy is also in the works. Her work extends beyond fiction into essays, media contributions, and poetry, where she explores themes of memory, grief, and redemption.