Jerry Oltion has been a gardener, stone mason, carpenter, oilfield worker, forester, land surveyor, rock ‘n’ roll deejay, printer, proofreader, editor, publisher, computer consultant, movie extra, corporate secretary, and garbage truck driver. For the last thirty-three years he has also been a writer, with fifteen novels and over 150 stories published so far. Jerry and his wife, Kathy, live in Eugene, Oregon, with their cat, Stormy. They both write science fiction.