About

Robin Gainey partnered in the creation and opening of The Gainey Vineyard in Santa Barbara County, California. She presided over various culinary programs offered at the winery and, with Julia Child and others, helped found the Santa Barbara chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food.  She also oversaw the continued breeding and showing of champion Arabian Horses which was begun by the Gainey Family in 1939 in Arizona and Minnesota. Later, she returned to Seattle to find her heart in writing.  She won a Rupert Hughes Award for Fiction for the short story upon which the novel Jack of Hearts is based.  R.F. Gainey has completed two literary novels and is working on a third.  She divides her time between her two favorite cities: Seattle and Rome, Italy.  When not writing she enjoys reading, cooking, horseback riding, skiing the mountains of Colorado and traveling the Inside Passage of Western Canada aboard a boat, with one husband, two daughters, two Jack Russells and a cat.