I grew up in rural Virginia. My father and I grew up reading and writing together. I went to a boarding school in Delaware for high-school. After high-school I went on a road trip across the country, traveled around California, and studied philosophy for that year.

During that year I found a passion for writing. I am almost finished with a book about this trip, and am also working on a book about the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz in 1968, which will be published in 2018, for its ...