Chet Novicki was born in Laconia, NH, and has lived in California, North Carolina, Korea, Japan, Honolulu, HI, and Florida. Along the way he has had a variety of jobs, ranging from Chinese Mandarin linguist for the US government to truck driver. He is a two-time graduate of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, and a graduate of the University of Hawaii. His hobbies include skydiving, hang gliding, free diving, volcano jumping, alligator wrestling, cannonball catching and telling tall tales - mostly the latter.
