J.D.R. Hawkins is an Amazon, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling, award-winning author known for bringing the Civil War to life through a rare and compelling Confederate front-line perspective.

Her acclaimed Renegade Series follows a family from north Alabama whose lives are forever altered by the war’s devastation and emotional toll. The series includes A Beautiful Glittering Lie, winner of the 2013 John Esten Cooke Fiction Award and the 2012 B.R.A.G. Medallion; A Beckoning Hellfire, an Amazon bestseller and 2022 B.R.A.G. Medallion winner; A Rebel Among Us, recipient of the 2017 John Esten Cooke Fiction Award and the 2022 B.R.A.G. Medallion; and Double-Edged Sword, winner of both the 2023 B.R.A.G. Medallion and the 2023 John Esten Cooke Fiction Award.

In addition to her historical fiction, Hawkins has published the nonfiction work Horses in Gray: Famous Confederate Warhorses. She has also written two short stories connected to the Renegade Series: A Becharmed Callie Christmas and Fool’s Gold Folly.

Ms. Hawkins is a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Historical Novel Society, the International Women’s Writing Guild, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and Pikes Peak Writers. She is also an artist and a singer/songwriter.