Jason Barney lives in St. Albans, Vermont. He has published about one hundred short stories with various small presses. He has written two prior books, Northern Vermont in the War of 1812 and The Hidden History of Franklin County, Vermont, both published by The History Press. Jason is a science-fiction nerd and maintains the Star Trek timeline for Pocket Books. He has been teaching at Missisquoi Valley Union High School for nineteen years. He has received the local VFW Teacher of the Year and was awarded the Vermont Humanities Victor R. Swenson Award in 2019. In the summer of 2021, he was a co-director of a National Endowment for the Humanities Council Grant with the Vermont Archaeological Society. In the fall of 2021, he was the Missisquoi Valley Union Teacher of the Year.