The author grew up in East Leroy, Michigan, a small town south of Battle Creek. He graduated from Athens High School, and served in the Army during the Viet Nam War era. After serving in the Army he graduated from Appalachian Bible College and Berean Christian College, majoring in pastoral ministry, teaching and theology. He has been a Christian school teacher, a pastor, a youth pastor, assistant mission director, mission director, and has been writing Christian fantasy fiction since his two sons were knee high to a gnome. He was a member of a sci-fi fantasy writers' group in the Seattle area