Stephen has been writing stories since he learned to form complete sentences. He started his first fantasy novel at school in the 6th grade while neglecting his assignments and secretly printing it out on a dot matrix printer. He finished his first sci-fi novel in high school. A former US Air Force linguist, satellite TV installer, US patent examiner, and on-and-off again college student, he is now an electrical engineer that lives in Tennessee with his wife and two young children.