Gareth S. Young was born and raised in Scotland, spending his formative years devouring comic books, sci-fi television and creating stories with his friends. At twenty-five he left Aberdeen, on the Northeast coast of Scotland, and emigrated to the United States. He began work on "Monsters" in 2008 and self-published it in 2010. Since then he has continued to write and hopes to release two books in 2015.