Gary Repetto is a former Chicago high school all-star baseball and football player who later lettered in football and baseball at the University of New Mexico, playing on three consecutive conference championship football teams. After several years coaching major college football, he was the commissioner of a state wide youth football program with responsibilities that included the interviewing, hiring and overseeing of coaches for a 2000 player organization. After coaching he became a corporate recruiter, recruiting and hiring several thousand engineers and analysts in the defense and mining industries over a long, successful career. His first novel, 'Prairie Fire', was published in 2015. Besides 'Afraid of the Dark' Repetto is working on a third novel set in New Mexico during the Cuban Missile Crisis and a series of short stories, 'Chicago Stories, Catholic and Otherwise'. He lives in Arizona with his wife, Antoinette, and their family.
