Stephan Nebbia was born Patrick Conrad Weber in Teaneck New Jersey, where his debut novel is set. He attended the University of Notre Dame and Rutgers Medical school. He is a practicing board certified pediatric anesthesiologist, having trained at Emory, Vanderbilt and The University of Toronto. In recent years he has put significant time and effort into the study of creative writing technique, and this is his first work of long form fiction.