A native of Seattle, Steve Toutonghi studied fiction and poetry while completing a BA in Anthropology at Stanford. He has hitchhiked from Anchorage to San Francisco, interned at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, worked as a tech journalist, as an English teacher in Japan, and founded three companies. He's filled a handful of roles at companies in Silicon Valley and Seattle. His two novels, Side Life and Join, are both published by Soho Press.