Scott Milder was born and raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, on December 10, 1977. He began writing at an early age, publishing short fiction in various indie horror magazines while attending college in Alamosa, CO. He graduated in 2000, after which he spent a semester teaching college English and then a year working as a technical writer at Los Alamos National Laboratory.He went back to school in 2002, where he switched his focus from prose fiction to screenwriting and film production. He has a B.A. in English from Adams State College in Alamosa, CO, as well as a B.A. in Media Arts from the University of New Mexico (2004) and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from Boston University (2007).He prefers to go by "Scotty" but hates it when people make "Star Trek" jokes, as he insists that he was never a fan of the show or any of the movies.