Jeffrey Berg earned an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. He lives in the Northwest corner of Connecticut with his wife and three children. Jeff enjoys travel, having been in recent years to Italy, Turkey, Canada, Ireland, Amsterdam, and many parts of the United States. In 2006, he and his family traveled to the Galapagos and the Amazon, and in 2008, they did a whirlwind tour of New Zealand in an RV.