S.I. Soper was born in a small farming community near Chehalis, Washington. She has subsequently lived in Oregon, California, Arizona, Texas, Missouri, and is now back in Washington state. When not writing, she enjoys traveling and has been on every Amtrak route in the United States (with a couple of exceptions!) Has travelled to Europe, Africa, South America, Mexico, The Yucatan, South Sea Islands, Canada, and all over the United States by train, plane, car, bus, ship, mule train, camel caravan, and wagon train. She has ridden by mule down into the Grand Canyon to Phantom Ranch twice and has taken two other mule trips into the canyon. First at seventeen from the North Rim, and the last at seventy-nine from the South Rim.