Nyle Kardatzke lives and writes in Indianapolis. He worked as the Head of School at Brookfield Academy, Wisconsin; Wichita Collegiate School, Kansas; and Sycamore School, Indiana, for a total of 28 years before retiring from school headships. He has three adult children and ten grandchildren. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. He taught economics at Marquette University in Milwaukee before becoming a private school headmaster. He studied economics to better understand the lives of people in Eritrea, where he taught in the Peace Corps as a young man in the early 1960s.
His writings to date have grown out of his personal experiences from early childhood to the present.