Scott T. Fink attended Towson University and graduated from the Washington School of Photography, both in his home state of Maryland. He served in the U.S. Army and Maryland Army National Guard for nearly 19 years and retired as a Staff Sergeant. He is the author of several published articles that appeared in Civil War Times and Gettysburg Magazine. He has been an avid student of the Civil War for many years and spent much of the last decade studying Gettysburg in general, and Gettysburg photographs in particular. An Iraq War veteran and Purple Heart recipient, Scott lives in Olney, Maryland, with his wife, three children, and two dogs.