Bridges DelPonte writes award-winning fiction and nonfiction. She has explored women's legal challenges in the military and military academies in various publications, and has won her several writing awards, including two National Hoeber Memorial Awards. Her legal mystery, Deadly Sacrifices, won a Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association (FWA). Her other works include an underwater fantasy novel, Bridles of Poseidon, a children's book, The Little Dusties: The Roar of the Silver Dragon (with illustrator, Michelle Bakay), and many short stories in anthologies. She belongs to the Women's Fiction Writers Association, FWA, Sisters in Crime, Inc.and Citrus Crime Writer. Bridges lives in Punta Gorda Florida.
