Shannon Hildebrandt grew up in rural Virginia and North Carolina and has always been surrounded by woods. She is a lifelong hiker, 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. Shannon currently lives in Saratoga Springs, New York with her boyfriend and two golden retrievers. Oxygen is her first book and is book one in what will be a series.