Dave Carty attended Colorado State University and the University of Colorado, where he majored in Journalism. During his twenties he worked at a variety of jobs too numerous to list in their entirety: waiter, bartender, carpenter, salesman, ski instructor, real estate agent, and day laborer. But ultimately he returned to writing and by age 30 was making a living as a full-time professional writer. For the next three decades, Carty published over 1000 articles in a host of national publications while simultaneously writing novels on the side. Leaves On Frozen Ground is the upshot of that apprenticeship, and his first published work of literary fiction. Carty writes from his home in southwestern Montana, where he lives with three English Pointer bird dogs and indulges his non-literary passions: dancing, bird hunting, woodworking, and all things outdoors.