Grady Lee Owens lives outside Cloudcroft, New Mexico, with his pet cats. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, he has attended New Mexico Tech off and on for several years in the study of astrophysi...view moreGrady Lee Owens lives outside Cloudcroft, New Mexico, with his pet cats. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, he has attended New Mexico Tech off and on for several years in the study of astrophysics, mathematics, and optical engineering. Unintentionally following in personal hero Powel Crosley Jr.’s footsteps of self-attributed “fifty jobs in fifty years,” he has worked in warehouse organization, seismology data collecting, prototyping and analytical laboratories, pizza design and construction, computer systems maintenance, and optical astronomy, to name a few things in his quest for knowledge.view less