Shannon Hildebrandt grew up in rural Virginia and North Carolina and has always been surrounded by woods and water. She is a lifelong hiker, water-skier, backpacker, snowboarder and horseback rider. Her love of the outdoors has fostered in her an interest in nature, conservation and man’s responsibilities to the natural world. She drew on her love of the environment to foster the series she is undertaking. Shannon currently lives in Saratoga Springs, New York with her boyfriend, two golden retrievers and three cats. Oxygen is her first book and is book one in what will be a series.