D Cohen has always seen things that aren’t there yet.

At ten, he commandeered the family movie camera. At nineteen, he borrowed money against his camera equipment, flew to Nepal, and came home with slides that paid off the loan. At an age when most people were settling in, he looked at a raw piece of Colorado mountainside that no one else knew what to do with and designed and built a home for his family.

That instinct — to look at raw material and see what it could become — is what built a career, a community, and eventually a series of novels.

A Colorado native, D grew up with a mother who appeared quiet and ran everything. He has spent a lifetime in the company of women like her. They have punctured his ego when necessary, shaped his thinking always, and left marks on both the man and the work that no acknowledgments page could fully honor.

He lives in downtown Denver with his wife of over four decades. The mountain house still stands as a basecamp for family, fishing, hiking, and a home for the RV.

The GW Canyon Series started as a short story exercise thirty years ago. Like many things in D’s life, the chase of something bigger kind of sneaked up on him.