Darren Cook is a writer of Fantasy, Fiction, and Poetry. He has been a fantasy addict all his  life, and started writing soon after high school..  He received his MFA in Writing Popular Fiction in January of 2013 from Seton Hill University with Hala's Rite, as his thesis novel, published in 2014; the first of seven based in his world of Vaelin.
     A native of Pennsylvania, he attended Pennsylvania Culinary, earning his Associates in Culinary Arts in 1993.  Finding the field wearing he returned to school in 2001 and earned his BS in Secondary Education-English from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.  Of course fate has a way of turning the screw and in 2009 he was offered a job working for the Perseus House Charter School of Excellence heading up their budding Culinary Program, returning him to his love of food and meshing well with his dedication to education. 
     He  is married to his wonderful wife who raise five exceptional children, a dog "Pickles," a cat, goldfish, and whatever is usually brought into the house.