R. Chris Reeder grew up in the Pacific Northwest, attended college in Walla Walla, Washington, and has lived and worked across the country and around the world. He has had careers as a Shakespearean actor, an international courier, and a singing activist, but is now perfectly content in his current vocation of a stay-at-home father. He currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, two children, and a cat named Monster Jack. This is his first novel.