Steven Cain

Steven Cain, a journalist, and freelance writer for more than fifty years, published thousands of articles nationally in magazines such as Successful Farming, Prairie Farmer, and Farm Journal. He was a contributing writer to World Book’s Science Yearbook from 1989 to 2003. In 1997 and 1998. He hosted the nationally televised Science and Technology Update for Direct TV's Channel Earth. In the 1990s, Cain was a volunteer communication consultant in Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Russia, and Uganda.

While working for Purdue Extension, he helped more than 60,000 Hoosiers return to their homes after natural disasters. Cain has been a major player in four national USDA team awards for disaster education since 1988. At Purdue, he also coordinated news information for the School of Agriculture’s Department of Agricultural Communication. He worked with journalists from major television news networks as well as newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal.

A motorcycle enthusiast, Cain has ridden motorcycles in all 50 U.S. states and five Canadian Provinces. He will always cherish riding to the Arctic Circle with his son Ryan. He lives in the area where this story takes place with his wife Kathryn, also an author. They have four children, Hollie, Jason, Stephanie, and Ryan.