Gary Baysinger spent his formative years growing up on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of a World War II battlefield. His debut work, "A Kind of Homecoming," was a First Place Winner for the Chanticleer Awards for Short Prose, Novellas, and Collections. He is a graduate of the University of Baltimore and a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. Gary began writing in 2016 and lives in Milwaukie, Oregon with his wife, two children, and two dogs.