Rick Chambers is an award-winning author, communications professional, and a former newspaper reporter and editor. A lifelong resident of Michigan, he has won recognition for short story writing, teleplays, news reporting, investigative journalism and public relations programs. He was inspired to be a writer at a young age, taken with the excitement of the U.S. space program, the genre of science fiction, and the works of C.S. Lewis. He is married and has two grown children.