Timothy J. Spadoni (Tim) grew up in Chicago watching episodes of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone and its iterations, comic books, and the stories of science fiction authors the likes of Heinlein, Asimov, Saberhagen, and Niven. He later devoured the books of Steven King. After graduating with a degree in psychology from Loyola’s Chicago North Shore campus, he worked with autistic children and psychiatric patients. He later switched to a career in technology as a computer programmer, analyst, and department manager. His writing included poetry and songs and recently published a book on writing songs with the ukulele.