Charlie Sheldon studied at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts, where he received a Master’s Degree in Wildlife Biology and Resource Management, before working as a commercial fisherman off New England for several years in the ground fish, offshore lobster, and swordfish fisheries. He then spent 28 years working for ports as a planner, project and construction manager, and executive, including habitat cleanup projects and working with Puget Sound Tribes to reduce tribal fishing conflicts. Later he returned to sea, shipping out with the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific as an Ordinary Seaman, Able Bodied Seaman, and Bosun. His last gig was as bosun aboard USNS Shughart, New Orleans to New York, in 2016. Always a writer, he published Fat Chance with Felony and Mayhem Press in 2005. He began working on ideas for Strong Heart, his tale about the Olympic Mountains, the Pacific coast, and human origins, long, long ago and began serious research in 2010. These days he hikes in the Olympics whenever he can and continues to write tales in the Strong Heart Series, with the second book, Adrift, coming in the fall of 2018.