Born in Lubbock, Texas, I grew up the youngest son of a successful salesman and a part time teacher, full time homemaker. My love of story grew from an early age as the result of moving frequently and making friends slowly as well as taking long car trips in the backseat of a ’78 Ford LTD with my older brother and an inexhaustible supply of paperbacks.

I wrote my first story in 3rd grade, much to the embarrassing acclaim of peers and teachers alike; I've been a storyteller since. When I'm not writing or reading, I enjoy spending time with my family, baseball, running, buying books and oddities with reckless abandon, and car karaoke. I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin as an English major, bleed orange, and could live on Chuy's queso and fresh salsa every day for the rest of my life. I live with my wife and five children (four in the home, one in heaven) in south central Arizona.

My writing is influenced by the work of JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, William Gibson, and Neal Stephenson, as well as so many others too numerous to list. My stories center on the indomitable human spirit. My dream mentor is Cormac McCarthy.