Born in a big family to teen parents, A. H. Ostmo grew up in a mountain town near Crater Lake. She was a strange kid who liked natural disaster movies (Twister and Dante’s Peak) and loved being near a volcano, wild animals, cool rocks, and the ocean. Despite humble beginnings and failed experiments to create a living Pokémon©, A. H. Ostmo graduated from Harvard and Cambridge and traveled the world with Youth With A Mission. A. H. Ostmo currently works at the School of the Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She writes to make sense of the world— its wonders, its struggles, and the truths hidden in between.

Born in a big family to teen parents, A. H. Ostmo grew up in a mountain town near Crater Lake. She was a strange kid who liked natural disaster movies (Twister and Dante’s Peak) and loved being near a volcano, wild animals, cool rocks, and the ocean. Despite humble beginnings and failed experiments to create a living Pokémon©, A. H. Ostmo graduated from Harvard and Cambridge and traveled the world with Youth With A Mission. A. H. Ostmo currently works at the School of the Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She writes to make sense of the world—its wonders, its struggles, and the truths hidden in between.

Usually outdoors