Nine is a mother and a daughter, an outdoors-woman, and a homebody who treasures time with books. She currently works as an online tutor (mostly math) and homemaker. She is taking classes at Western Technical College to be an accounting assistant. She loves time in nature, having connected with the Friends of the Blufflands while hiking near Zoerb Prairie. Nine is awed and humbled by the diversity of life in our prairies; she is especially fond of bumblebees.