After fifteen years as a "wilderness wife" in Alaska, award winning author Bonnie Rose Ward now resides with her husband on their farm in central West Virginia. They still maintain a self-sufficient lifestyle, raising goats, chickens, and other barnyard animals, with four dogs and a peacock named George rounding out the menagerie. Bonnie enjoys canning vegetables from the huge gardens sowed by her husband with heirloom open-pollinated seeds, and in her "spare" time, she continues to write her memoirs of the Alaskan wilderness.

FIRST PLACE - JOURNEY AWARDS Narrative Non-Fiction Chanticleer Book Reviews 2015

WINNER - NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD memoir 2014

HONORABLE MENTION - READER’S FAVORITE Non-Fiction / Adventure 2018

HONORABLE MENTION - FOREWORD REVIEW'S BOOK of the year 2014

FINALIST - USA BEST BOOK AWARD Autobiography/Memoir category 2014