I grew up in a small town in northern Illinois, west of Chicago.  After graduating high school, I dual majored in English Literature and German Language at a small, Midwestern liberal arts college.  After college, I turned my eyes towards exploration, and spent many years in Japan, Thailand and Hawaii.

Nowadays, I live with my partner near Seattle, Washington, where I work in the gaming industry.

I love stories.  I’ve long been fascinated by video games as a storytelling medium, and I love exploring different cultures, discovering the different underlying stories that different groups of people tell themselves, the stories that define who they are and how they perceive the world.