Brad Dimock was born in Ithaca, New York, and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Prescott College in central Arizona. He proceeded to squander his education for more than twenty-five years as a commercial boatman in Grand Canyon and the rivers of Utah, Alaska, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. He is now a writer, river guide, and aspiring hermit living in Flagstaff, Arizona. He has written for numerous magazines and has stories in several anthologies. He was one of three authors that collaborated on The Doing of the Thing; the Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom, which won the National Outdoor Book Award in 1998. His first solo work, Sunk Without a Sound: the Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde, won both the Arizona Higways Nonfiction Book Award and the National Outdoor Book Award.