Scot T. O’Hara has worked in technical communications for more than thirty years, including nearly two decades as the Director of Knowledge Management at a major financial firm. Before that, he was an award-winning journalist for a Gannett newspaper in Florida.
Born in Rochester, New York, Scot moved to Merritt Island, Florida as a teenager. He earned a BSJ degree from Northwestern University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. He also attended several Iowa Summer Writing Festivals at the University of Iowa while working on this book. He currently lives in Chicago with his husband, Dale Boyer.