Jake Ellison has been an award-winning journalist in the Northwest for more than 30 years. He worked for years as a science writer at the University of Washington. He was an editor and writer at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer print edition, science writer and marijuana blogger at Hearst Media, with reporting for The New York Times and Hearst Magazines. He has won many journalism awards for his writing. Since graduating from the University of Montana's creative writing program, he has completed numerous novel and short stories.