Jeff Henry was born in northern Pennsylvania, but has lived his entire adult life in and around Yellowstone National Park in southern Montana and northern Wyoming. He has worked various jobs in and around Yellowstone Park for the past 40 years, as fishing guide, wildlife researcher, tour guide, resource manager, park ranger, and winter keeper of the Parks lodges. He is the author of Survive: Snow Country (Falcon, 2016) and The Year Yellowstone Burned (Taylor, 2015) Jeff lives with his daughter Mariah on the banks of the Yellowstone River in southern Montana.