Mark Warren is a writer, composer of music, and teacher of Native American survival skills. He was the 1998 U.S. Whitewater Champion in slalom and wildwater combined. In 1999 he won the World Longbow Championship. In addition to the Secrets of the Forest series, he is the author of Two Winters in a Tipi (LyonsPress, 2012), and from Five Star Publishing: Adobe Moon (2017), Born to the Badge (2018), and Promised Land (2019). Mark lives with his wife, Susan, in the mountains of north Georgia.