As a newborn, Atwood Cutting was transported home from the hospital on
a snow mobile. Her mother was surprised to find the nursery
looking like a scene from Gettysburg -- charred and steaming
-- but in they went, regardless.

With the writings of Jack London and Ralph Waldo Emerson as
their inspiration, Cutting’s parents chose to follow an
idealistic dream, and pioneered in the Alaskan backwoods.
The greatest source of material for Cutting's historical
fiction saga was her mother, Kate Peters, who told her
wonderful stories about the weather, the road, and the neighbors
at the end of the road.
Luckily, Grandma Tutu in Hawaii saved most of the letters
Kate sent to her, over the years. These nuggets from an isolated
mountain home proved to be a goldmine. Kate Peters also took photographs and kept journals, which shed enough light to give an accurate historical perspective for those who want to know what it was really like, living as a bush pioneer before cell phones and four-wheelers.

Educated in Alaska, Missouri, California, Hawaii and
British Columbia, author Cutting graduated ‘Phi Beta Kappa’
in visual and performing arts, and then rounded out her
education, with a Master of Liberal Arts degree in museum education and aesthetic expression.

She is married and lives in Colorado, where she writes, 
photographs spectacular sunsets over the Rockies, and pursues a variety of
aesthetic interests.