Sumner Books

Kae Cheatham has written for newspapers and national magazines, including American Cowboy and Pro Rodeo World. For several years she worked as an assistant editor at Athlon Sports Communications, Inc. She has also edited for Thomas Nelson and Falcon Press. Her poetry has been published in Pikestaff Forum, Redneck Review..., Crosscurrents and other literary journals.
Kae has more than a dozen published titles, two each with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Westminster Press. KANSAS DREAMER: Fury In Sumner County was released as an audio book (May 2005) by Books In Motion.
The 1997 juvenile’s biography of activist Dennis Banks (ENSLOW) was a Finalist in the 1998 Spur Awards competition. Her second contemporary young-adult book THE BEST WAY OUT (HBJ), was voted one of the top 50 social studies books for 1982 by the National Council for the Social Studies-Children’s Book Council Joint Committee. Crocodiles, a middle school nonfiction book for schools and libraries, was released in 2001 from Lucent Books.
Her young-reader book, Spotted Flower and the Ponokomita is in the second printing of the second edition and is the basis for her Humanities Montana (HM) presentation ＂Before the Horse.＂ She has been part of the HM Speakers Bureau since 2004. Along with writing and giving presentations, Kae freelances as an editor, layout and cover designer for print and electronic books.