Kirk Bogart was born in the wine country of Northern California, but he left in 1992 promptly after graduating from Sacramento State University - the place where his love of writing was first sparked. His passion for wild places and an inherently restless soul then sent him traveling, living, and working across the West and beyond. Bogart started his adult life in the real estate finance industry in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Spokane, Washington, areas. After that, he moved into a technology sales career, but he lasted only a short while in the starched and pressed corporate prison of the t...