Michael Klerck grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of a number of textbooks for the community college market including one that has had an uninterrupted run since 1996. Although this is his first published work of fiction, he has had short stories published, and in 2001 he won the coveted national Mondi Paper Magazine Award for work in Men's Health magazine. He now lives south of Vancouver, British Columbia, in White Rock.