An award-winning writer, Carroll Brown Arnold has been published in multiple national equine publications and is the former publisher of America’s Cutter and America’s Barrel Racer magazines. Carroll graduated from Southern Methodist University and successfully completed graduate work at the University of North Texas. A regular cutting horse competitor with the NCHA, ACHA, and AQHA, Carroll received her first horse as a 16th birthday gift from her parents and went on to fill the next twenty years competing in barrel racing and pole bending competitions. Today, she lives on a 39-acre breeding farm with her equine veterinarian husband Kenton H. Arnold, DVM and horse-loving daughter Austria.