Snow Hawk began her training as an amazon in the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota at the tender age of one year. That wilderness trip began a passion for deep forests, clear lakes, and the animals who dwell therein.
She has camped, canoed, and snowshoed in the Colorado Rockies, Canadian wilderness areas, and the forests of Northern Wisconsin. Combining her outdoor skills with a lifelong study of history and anthropology, Snow Hawk has practiced a wide array of ancient survival skills for over 40 years. Dutch oven cooking, fire without matches, archery, and atlatl spear hurling are just a few of the skills she has studied and taught. A certified archery instructor, Snow Hawk has competed in both field and target archery, and taught longbow, recurve, compound, and Scythian/Amazon horse bows to hundreds of women.
Snow Hawk has made her living as a naturalist, woodworker, stripper (of furniture, that is…), dog sled builder, leather craftsman, jeweler, and writer. She has been a craftwomon at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival for twenty five years, providing women with high fashion amazon loin cloths as well as tooled belts, antler jewelry, and handcrafted amazon gear. A true renaissance woman, she is equally at home traditional dancing at a powwow or foxtrotting in a ballroom. Under the Name Wendy Winslow, look for her new mystery novel, Take Wing, Take Flight, to be released by Creatrix Books in the spring of 2009.
When she isn’t teaching amazon camp sessions and cooking gourmet meals for anyone she can entice to eat them, she shares her home with the team of five Alaskan malamutes who are the loves of her life.
