Ken Overcast

Ken Overcast wears quite a few different hats. Author, storyteller, poet, recording artist, musician, and syndicated radio program host are just a few of the varied titles this Montana cowboy carries around on a regular basis. He’s a busy guy, and a natural born storyteller. He travels throughout the West entertaining appreciative audiences when he can drag himself away from the ranch he and his wife Dawn have shared for many years. They run a herd of commercial cows on Lodge Creek in north central Montana.

They have spent their entire lives in the cattle business, and their Western country lifestyle is their passion. The rancher hat is the one Ken is most comfortable wearing, but he found so many stories “burning a hole in me,” as he likes to say, that he began writing in earnest in 2003 and completed his first book of short stories, “Yesterday’s Yarns” that year. Several more books of stories were to follow, with even more on the horizon. Ken’s stories of the Real West come from the perspective of a true Montana cowboy.

He is also a prolific songwriter and has recorded several CDs of both his own material and cover tunes. Ken has also garnered a few national awards along the way, with his book, “Sittin’ ‘Round the Stove” receiving the prestigious Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists.