Marya Smith

Marya Smith grew up in New York State, and was educated at Cornell University, where she studied English Literature.  She lectured there, and now works as a freelance writer.   She has published two young adult novels, Winter-Broken and Across the Creek.  She rides, and the dustjacket of Winter-Broken describes her as riding her horse through the Illinois cornfields.  

Finding the book:  reasonably easy to find.

Sources and links:  

Marya Smith’s website

Bibliography - horse books only

Winter-Broken
Arcade, New York, 1990, 120 pp.

Home life is very difficult for Dawn, who has learned that silence is the best way to cope with her abusive father.
She then she meets Eleroy Everley, and the horse Wildfire.  At last she is happy, but she still has much to
go through before she emerges to hope.