Faith A. Colburn received the Nebraska Library Commission’s 2020 Book Award for Fiction, honoring her novel, See Willy See. Her first novel The Reluctant Canay Sings earned her a Featured Author Award from BookWorks and her Seacrest family memoir, From Picas To Bytes: Four Generations Of Seacrest Newspaper Service To Nebraska, received the second place award in adult non-fiction from the Nebraska Federation of Press Women. Her fiction has appeared in Kinesis and Platte Valley Review, and her poetry has been published in The Reynolds Review.

She worked more than a decade as a public information officer for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and while working there, she wrote numerous articles for NEBRASKAland magazine, including a Centennial history of game and fish management in Nebraska that appeared as a special issue called Sportsman’s Scrapbook. She earned graduate degrees in creative writing and journalism and an undergraduate degree in journalism and political science from the University of Nebraska, receiving the Outstanding Thesis in the College of Fine Arts and Humanities from the University of Nebraska–Kearney in 2012 for her family memoir entitled Threshold. She also received the Outstanding Work in Fiction Award during its 2009 student conference.

A sixth-generation Nebraskan, Colburn knows the Great Plains prairie. It sometimes appears as a character in her works. She grew up on a farm and spent nearly a decade as an adult, farming. She served as an information officer for Martin Luther Homes, a Lutheran social ministry organization serving people with developmental disabilities. She has also held a number of short-term or part-time jobs which have given her fresh insights—truck driver, waitress, college professor—insights which have informed or will inform her writing. The themes she returns to, again and again, are families, resiliency, and the sometimes horrific cost of survival.