I grew up in upstate New York, where the heavy winter snow made me intimately familiar with the inside of the public library. My dad, a genetics professor, passed on his love of science fiction to me at an early age, and it has always been my favorite genre to both read and write. I love the way aliens, robots, and monsters can tell us more about what it means to be human than a normal person can.
My first two novels are horror and soft science fiction. Zombies have always been one of my favorite monsters, and I try to take a new spin on an old concept in "Restless Dead" by re-introducing the voodoo zombie. "The Geneticist's Son" is really a coming-of-age story, but one about a boy who was genetically altered to be the perfect human being, but fails to meet his father's expectations.