Audra majored in English, Creative Writing at Western Washington University before moving to Seattle, where she met her husband and became a mother to two daughters. It was in the Issy Alps and the North Cascades near Seattle where she fell in love with trail running and began running longer and longer distances. After running the Cascade Crest 100, Audra immersed herself in the greater Seattle trail and ultrarunning community while writing her first book, Welcome Back to Easton: The First 20 Years of the Cascade Crest 100-Mile Endurance Run. Currently, Audra lives, runs, and writes in Spokane, WA.