Edward Anthony Kees was born and raised in New Orleans, LA. on October 31st, 1981. Aspiring to be a writer all of his life, he recalls: "Before I got into sports (as most boys tend to do), or anything else, I was into writing. In terms of goals, it has always been my first love. While my brothers were outside playing, I was inside writing stories and creating characters. Obviously not anything such as a novel, I had never even heard of a novel at that time in my life. I would tell random stories, most of them straight out of my head, to my mom -- and to anyone who would listen -- usually while...