For the last eighteen years, Howard Wolke has been teaching at a public middle school — briefly in Fairfax, VA and mostly in Lexington, MA. He started teaching Social Studies, but now he teaches teachers and students how to use technology to learn. Once he became a father he started writing memoir and self-published a book about his first year as a father called “Toots, Not Poops.” He also wrote the occasional, guest blog post on www.kveller.com. Now he has moved away from the personal narratives to spend more time on fiction writing where he focuses on MG and YA writing. Cryptid Academy is his first novel.