Jackson Burrows currently lives in Deep South Texas along the perimeter of the Rio Grande. Earlier in life, he worked in many occupations ranging from an agricultural tree farmer to a gravedigger at a cemetary. During the Vietnam conflict, he was drafted from Oklahoma State University during his sophmore year through the the lottery system developed by the Nixon administration to fill up the ranks for the already-lost war. After serving in the USCG search-and-rescue detachment, he rode the deep-sea ships of the merchant marine. In 1981, he became an emergency services personnel and eventually completed his employment of twenty-five years as a fire captain and EMT. He is now retired and has completed the novel he developed those many years ago when he was in college.