I'm a graduate of both Arizona State University in Tempe and University of Arizona in Tucson. I'm a native of Kansas but I've spent most of my adult life in Arizona. I've traveled extensively in Europe and Mexico. Besides be a retired science teacher, I've been a derrick hand in the oil fields of Wyoming, a commissioned artist, and an amateur archaeologist having worked on excavations of prehistoric American sites in Flagstaff and Tucson. Now I write full time.