Gerard DiLeo likes to think of himself as having been born of pansavants and suckled by celebrity wetnurses, but the reality is that he grew up in the suburbs of New Orleans and was educated by Jesuits. Physician, inventor, women's health author, and newspaper and magazine columnist, he is currently in phase II of his life. He lives his post-Katrina life with his wife and his children in Florida. Their three sons and two daughters span the depth and breadth of the USA from Boston to New Orleans to Florida to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He misses crawfish very much.

He is the author of both non-fiction ("The Anxious Parent's Guide to Pregnancy," "Ovarian Cysts--the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly") and fiction (♂ The Novel--scifi, Siren--horror, Slider--psychological thriller, Eddie H. Christ--religious/historical satire, and STARLESS and Bible Black--short stories collection).

His interests, reflected in his writing, are science, cosmology, humanism, humor, psychology, horror, theology, time, and existentialism, and he usually mixes these and other interestes together in a gumbo for each book--delicious AND nutritious! And then, of course, there is the constructed language, DiLingo.