Grady Owens lives outside Cloudcroft, New Mexico, with his cat Scarmiglione. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, he finally graduated New Mexico Tech in 2020, with a degree in astrophysics, mathematics, and optical engineering. Unintentionally following in personal hero Powel Crosley, Jr's footsteps of self-attributed "50 jobs in 50 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.