About Hank Redding

Hank Redding is an American author of Western fiction, known for restrained, atmospheric stories centered on landscape, endurance, and moral consequence.

Hank Redding was born on the plains of South Dakota, the son of immigrants who came to America with little more than grit and a deep respect for honest work.

He now lives with his wife, Claire, on an eighty-acre stretch of Wyoming mountain land, where a cold creek winds through the pasture and two horses graze under the open sky. A retired lineman and lifelong steward of the land, Redding spends his days tending cattle, tying flies, and watching the seasons roll across the ridgeline.

His fiction grows out of that same attention—to weather, to silence, and to the ways people live with the consequences of their choices long after the moment has passed. He is drawn to towns at the edge of change, to systems that outlast the people who built them, and to the quiet moral weight carried by places that remember.

The Reckoning of Silver Butte is the first story he chose to share beyond family and friends—a tale that lingered for years before finally insisting it be told.

There is also a longer letter about why he writes, and why the work is being shared now. It lives here.

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His published works include The Reckoning of Silver Butte, Whiskey for the Dead, Company Town, and Where the River Narrows.