Gil Hough was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised on the waters of lake St. Clair, spending the majority of his youth reading and boating. After graduating from Grand Valley State University, where he mainly studied his love of the sport of rowing, he left for various adventures which included several years of non-violent reconciliation work in Northern Ireland through the Brethren Volunteer Service, working with refuges from Central America seeking political asylum, and teaching English as a second language in Torreon, Mexico. Gil eventually settled in Knoxville, Tennessee where he resides t...