Robert D. McKee has held  a number of jobs, including four years in the U.S. Navy, warehouse worker, radio announcer, disc jockey (in the fun days of AM Rock), court reporter, and municipal court judge.

His short fiction has appeared in more than twenty commercial and literary publications. He is a recipient of a Wyoming Art Council’s Literary Fellowship, a three-time first-place winner of Wyoming Writers’ adult fiction contest, and a two-time first-place winner of the National Writers Association’s short fiction contest. One of his stories was selected to appear in the prestigious publication, Best American Mystery Stories. He currently has a short story in Contention, a Five Star-Cengage anthology of Frontier Fiction. He is also the prize-winning author of five  Western novels: Dakota Trails, Killing Blood, Out of the Darkness, Gypsy Rock, and the upcoming Reckoning at Lost Hope.