Roger Roffman

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Roffman worked his way west studying at Boston University, the University of Michigan, and the University of California at Berkeley. He worked with a street gang in Detroit, with inmates in several federal prisons, and with soldiers in the Army, both in Vietnam and at Walter Reed General Hospital. After retiring from the University of Washington School of Social Work faculty, he published a memoir titled MARIJUANA NATION: ONE MAN'S CHRONICLE OF AMERICA GETTING HIGH FROM VIETNAM TO LEGALIZATION. LOOKING ALWAYS is his first work of fiction. Roffman and his wife, Cheryl Richey, live in Seattle.