McDermid, Al

Aki Liao and Al McDermid met as graduate students of the History Department of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 1990. They met again in New Jersey in 1998, at which time they decided to write A Halo for Red Betsy. Their professors are no doubt shaking their heads, and thinking this is what they did with their degrees! Aki Liao Aki Liao was born in Paris, France, but at an early age emigrated with his family to New York and eventually to New Jersey, where he spent his formative years. Aki is a graduate of Yale University (1989) and received his M.A. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (...