User:Roxanna Kay

Roxanna Kay, born October 26, 1965, is a Native American (Cherokee) writer. She began writing as a child. One of her first stories (written at age six) is posted on her web site. Her chosen career as a private investigator/bounty hunter later inspired her to write the Rikki Rankin series. Kay always found time to write media commercials and print during her fifteen years as a private investigator/bounty hunter.

Early Life
Born Roxanna Kay West to father Robert West, an accomplished machinist, and mother Betty West(Lang), a homemaker, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The youngest of two daughters, with an older sister Robin Guilfoyle (West). Raised in Owasso, Oklahoma for the most part, some of her childhood years were spent in Kenia and Chugiak, Alaska. Her mother battled breast cancer and during her sixth grade year Betty West was killed in a car wreck. The world as Roxanna Kay knew it...was gone. Betty had always encouraged her to write stories, therefore, Roxanna Kay continued writing. Sometimes writing was the only thing that got her through a day.

Married twice as a teenager she struggled for normalcy. First to Joseph Burnside, a pipeline worker, then to Gregory Nugent, a musician. Very early twenties brought yet another husband, Stephen Kolker, an artist. Roxanna Kay had two children, Chase and Avery, from the third marriage. Mid-twenties brought another divorice. It was then she realized normalcy wasn't for her. She raised Chase and Avery as a single mom that carried a gun, wrestled fugitives to the ground and arrested them.

Later Years
In 2006, Roxanna Kay bought a home in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She never remarried. Chase and Avery have graduated high school. In 2007, her first book, Triple Cap was published. In 2009, the second book Blood Hold, of the Rikki Rankin series, was published.

With an outrageous sense of humor she believes laughter is essential to life. She always says, "Life is yours - own it!" She has taken on the cause of domestic violence and speaks to groups on the subject, and diminstrates self-defense techniques. In her books you will be taken on an adventure with both laughter and self-defense techniques.