Gary D. Conrad

Gary D. Conrad lives with his wife, Sheridan, and their dogs, Karma and Buddy, in Edmond, Oklahoma. Gary is an emergency and integrative physician, and his interests include Tibetan rights, meditation, the music of Joseph Haydn, organic gardening, choral work and wilderness hiking.

Gary's first book, "The Lhasa Trilogy," was the first place winner in both the Fiction: New Age and Fiction: Visionary/Metaphysical categories at the 2012 International Book Awards, and garnered a silver award in the Fiction category at the 2013 Nautilus Book Awards. His second work is "Oklahoma Is Where I Live," a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories. It was released in September 2013. Gary's third novel, "Murder on Easter Island," was the winner of the Fiction: New Age category at the 2015 International Book Awards. The book also was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards and received honorable mention at the Readers' Favorite Book Awards. "Murder at Stonehenge," Gary's highly anticipated sequel to "Murder on Easter Island," also won a first place in the Fiction: New Age category at the 2019 International Book Awards. In July 2019, Gary's fifth novel, "The Pit: Memoir of an Emergency Physician," was published.