Steve C. Posner was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in creative writing, he received an MBA in Computer Applications and Information Sciences from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and a law degree from St. John’s University School of Law. Steve has been a database designer and administrator, session guitarist and composer, Madison Avenue copywriter, freelance reporter, law professor, and litigator in private practice with special interests in intellectual property, privacy and surveillance law. He is the author of the legal treatise "Modern Privacy and Surveillance Law" (Matthew Bender 2006) and, in 17 years of writing semi-annual updates, has studied AI, Big Data, quantum computing, virtual/augmented reality, cybersecurity, and related issues. He currently lives in the suburbs of Denver with his wife. "Questioner" is his debut novel.