Shawn Rohrbach earned his BA in Medieval Philosophy at the Seminary of Christ the King in British Columbia, Canada, and his MFA in Writing at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Rohrbach is the author of nine books, having won the 2008 Indie Book Award for Sports and Fitness. He lives and writes in San Diego, California, and travels frequently through the Southwest and Mexico to inform his stories and sample the tequila.