Dustin Lawson is from Ohio. He has a master's degree in Global Politics. He used to live and work in Washington D.C. Throughout high school and college Dustin worked as a lion and tiger trainer at a big cat sanctuary and dreamt of becoming the next Jungle Jack Hannah. Instead, after college, Dustin spent a year traveling the world as the assistant to an author. During that year he found his true calling as a writer. Dustin is a cancer survivor. Because of his history of cancer, the military rejected him thirteen times before letting him in. He is now an officer in the National Guard.