Steven Bushnell

Steven Bushnell was born in Montebello, California on September 16, 1953. Montebello is located in the southwestern area of the San Gabriel Valley East of downtown Los Angeles.

Steven’s family moved to Bloomington, California and there he attended Crestmore Elementary School, junior high and high school. He graduated from Victor valley Senior High. During this time some of his earliest stories were written. Some of these stories are being updated and will be added to his new short story book.

Steven attended Santa Barbara City College and completed his undergraduate degree at Columbia Pacific University. He was certified as an aerospace technician and was employed by Santa Barbara Aerospace in the avionics department. This environment nurtured many of the technical premises for his future story lines and inventions such as the lateral compression (spline) turbine engine.

In 1977 Steven met his first wife Susan. They had two children Emily and William. Susan died of an accidental prescription drug overdose. Several years later Steven married his current wife Kristen. They recently purchased a new home in Camarillo, California. Several unpublished novels and short stories were written during this time, including the idea for the popular Little Church Mouse series.

After Santa Barbara Aerospace closed Steven went back to school to earn a master’s degree in family counseling and then a doctorate in clinical psychology. Steven successfully managed the Social Security Maximus Program in his region until congress voted to discontinue it. Afterwards he went into private practice, and also became the counselor at his local church. Later after completing seminary and becoming ordained, he filled the need in his church for an adult Bible education teacher, was later became his Bible Chef Ministry. This ministry has led to several new books and missionary trips to Mexico, Russia and Africa.

Steven is semi-retired now but still very active. He is working on a new novel Sojourn, a book of short stories, a textbook of his profile psychology theories and several new Church mouse stories. When he is not writing he enjoys visiting with fans at book signings, solving technical problems for the engines he has designed and traveling with his wife Kristen.