Gregg Fedchak was born in Waverly, NY, and grew up in Athens, PA and Canton, NY. He graduated from St. Lawrence University, where he majored in government. He then went on to work for the United States Department of Energy and was a Korean linguist at the National Security Agency. Fedchak has been an award-winning newspaper columnist and has seen his short fiction published in Buffalo Spree, Midland Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, and American Way, the inflight magazine of American Airlines. A writer and an artist (his paintings can be seen at http://www.greggfedchak.com), he currently lives in the country near Boonville, NY, with his wife, Elaine.