Jennifer Autumn Warwick was born in the badlands of New Mexico under the Scorpio Sun in 1972. Ms. Warwick grew up mostly in New Mexico and Colorado. She is a teacher and creative writer. Ms. Warwick is the winner of the Lena Todd Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction (2001), the University of New Mexico's Best Student Essay (2002), and New Mexico's Becoming an Outdoor Woman Essay Scholarship (2008).