An avid pilot, backcountry hiker, canoer, and whitewater enthusiast, A.W. Baldwin takes his readers on adventures in ancient lands that shape the motives and spirits of his characters. He has written six award-winning and best-selling thrillers featuring “Relic,” a moonshining hermit living deep in the remote canyons of Utah. Raptor Canyon, Wings Over Ghost Creek, and Broken Inn each received the Grand Master Adventure Writers’ Finalist Awards. The Antidote won the 1st Place Grand Master AWC Award (can a botany student, a couple of old-timers, and genetically modified seeds provide the antidote for climate change?) Moonshine Mesa (a “Relic” novel) won the Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal in the thriller-environmental genre.