Anne Lafferty was born in rural Wisconsin, and in some ways never left. She has been employed as a teacher and a musician, has worked in the field of nursing, and is currently a freelance writer and author in Scottsdale, AZ That being said, some of her most intense living was spent off the grid, no utilities, survivalist. Lafferty raised her children in the hills and woods and fields with the smell of wood smoke, the rules of strength and endurance that only the land can teach. They remember.