About Me

I grew up in a big extended family of eccentric Texas storytellers spinning yarns, including my grandmother, a poet, descended from Kentucky pioneers. As a lover of words, I became a professional librarian, reading tall tales to children and peddling YA Lit to teens. My husband  and I traveled all 2000 miles of the California Trail to research my award-winning novel, Prairie Journey. I share the name Bonney with William Bonney, Billy the Kid, and was inevitably drawn to his New Mexico haunts to research and write his story.

Frances Bonney Jenner in blue shirt, in the woods.